A church sues Resistance

[MISTER BIG T]

It doesn't sound winnable to me.

It's coypright infregment and not even a small one either. Don't act holier than thou, you'd probably be pissed if some foreign idiot would make money by showing something, like Lincoln monument being showered by diarrhea? Yeah, a game focusing around shooting projectile diarhea at the statue.

Churches seem to have a relatively poor track record of performing well in court, largely because of their penchant of bitching and moaning about every little thing that displeases them. The public is getting sick of hearing about it, the gaming industry is getting sick of having fingers pointed its way, and the courts are getting sick of video game related cases coming through their doors.

There's difference between suing for being harmful for children and with using a famous landmark in negative light.

If there is a law somewhere written down that explicitly says that one cannot electronically reproduce another structure and use it in a video game as they see fit, then that should far supercede any lack of written consent that the church may or may not have given Sony to use the church's likeness.

I don't think you can really use landmarks on any sort of electronic media for profit without consent.

Freedom of expression > a church's desire to not be turned into a virtual battleground.

There's limits where freedom of expression carries you to.

P.S. When has a game or movie's violence based on realistic locations or scenarios ever gotten it in trouble?

Acoarding to my memory, Duke Nukem 3 D gave a person the killing style, location, etc.

Such a copyright will only be effective if it was filed before the game was made.

That's like saying it's only effective to file the case about murder before the murder was even comitted. Do you think the church had some insight information on the game or something?

Also, it's dissapointing that the church is jumping on the Jack Thompson bandwagon by saying that it's irresponsible of the industry to posit scenarios of gun violence in a city plagued by gun violence, as if there is some kind of correlation between violence of any kind and video games.

Err, they never said there was connection. HOWEVER! If there's lots of shooting IN THE GAME and lots of gun in the area, the whole thing may come off to some people as OMG I'LL BE SHOT AT THE CHURCH!! And that's what this is all about.