Posted Mar 15, 2008 at 02:49AM by David T. Listed in: News Tags: Square Enix, South Korea
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Remember the Square Enix vs. Fantom Entertainment Group copyright infringement case we reported a few months back? For those of you who may not be familiar with it, Fantom Entertainment Group released a music video featuring the Korean recording artist, Ivy. The problem was that the music video "borrowed" a certain battle scene involving Tifa and Loz from Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children.

In any case, chalk up another victory for Square Enix: a Korean judge has ruled in favor of the developer-publisher. Chief Judge Lee Kyun-yong ordered Fantom Entertainment Group and Mr. Hong Jeong-ho (the director of the offending music video) to pay Square Enix 300 million Korean Won. The amount will cover the damages inflicted upon Square Enix's copyrighted material.

Yasuhiko Hasegawa, Square Enix's General Counsel, spoke on behalf of the company. Hasegawa appreciated the fact that the South Korean court acknowledged the damage done to Square Enix. Furthermore, Hasegawa reiterated the developer-publisher's stance regarding using copyrighted material without first asking permission:

Square Enix will continue to take decisive action against any infringements upon the Company's intellectual property, recognizing that this property is one of our most crucial resources.





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   by dark420bishop - 2008-03-15
 » imitate?

i think the issue was the footage they used without permission, not the imitation itself.

   by David T. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2008-03-15
 » re:

Point noted, but I think it was both. The fact that Fantom did not ask permission from Squeenix first made it even worse.

   by JCMC - 2008-03-15
 » Video

Wow, the video is super cheesy.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6m01X8Qzkw

Or you can go to youtube and search for it :P.

   by platon - 2008-03-15
 » lol, I didn't read this news

The video was cool, I never thought they could make an FF7 movie looking this nice with real people!! And the ending is funny, lol.

But man, they should have paid the rights to make this video, it's kinda stupid of them...



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