{"id":29415,"date":"2018-06-29T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/warner_bros_hits_back_at_bethesdas_fallout_shelter_lawsuit_describes_claim_as_baseless"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:45:00","slug":"warner-bros-hits-back-at-bethesdas-fallout-shelter-lawsuit-describes-claim-as-baseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/warner-bros-hits-back-at-bethesdas-fallout-shelter-lawsuit-describes-claim-as-baseless\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Hits Back At Bethesda&#8217;s Fallout Shelter Lawsuit, Describes Claim As &#8220;Baseless&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/warner_bros_hits_back_at_bethesdas_fallout_shelter_lawsuit_describes_claim_as_baseless\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/warner_bros_hits_back_at_bethesdas_fallout_shelter_lawsuit_describes_claim_as_baseless\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"fallout.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/warner_bros_hits_back_at_bethesdas_fallout_shelter_lawsuit_describes_claim_as_baseless\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/warner_bros_hits_back_at_bethesdas_fallout_shelter_lawsuit_describes_claim_as_baseless\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"fallout.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just last week we reported on the news that Bethesda had filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and\u00a0Behaviour Interactive over the new\u00a0<strong>Westworld<\/strong>\u00a0mobile game. The studio claimed that the game uses code that was originally created for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fallout_shelter\">Fallout Shelter<\/a><\/strong>, and there seemed to be some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/bethesda_sues_warner_bros_claiming_fallout_shelter_code_has_been_stolen\"><em>pretty fishy<\/em> evidence<\/a> to back that up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the folks over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2018\/06\/28\/warner-bros-responds-to-bethesda-westworld-mobile-lawsuit-calls-claim-baseless\">GameInformer<\/a>, Warner Bros. has now responded with a new statement on Bethesda&#8217;s claim, describing it as &#8220;surprising&#8221; and &#8220;baseless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>&#8220;As one of the world\u2019s leading creators of intellectual property, including the ground-breaking television series Westworld, Warner Bros. has a deep respect for intellectual property rights. \u00a0As such, the assertions by Bethesda Softworks that Warner\u2019s Westworld mobile game improperly used source code from Bethesda\u2019s Fallout Shelter are as surprising as they are unsubstantiated. \u00a0Warner Bros. has been assured by the game developer, Behaviour Interactive, that Bethesda\u2019s allegations are untrue and that none of Bethesda\u2019s code was used in the Westworld game. \u00a0Moreover, contrary to Bethesda\u2019s baseless accusation, Warner Bros. at no time \u201cinduced\u201d Behaviour to use the Fallout Shelter code in Westworld.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bethesda is reportedly suing to have the Westworld game shut down, but this response from Warner Bros. will certainly delay &#8211; or potentially stop &#8211; proceedings. As always, legal matters such as these can take an awfully long time to resolve themselves; we might have to wait quite a while before hearing any outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last week we reported on the news that Bethesda had filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and\u00a0Behaviour Interactive over the new\u00a0Westworld\u00a0mobile game. The studio claimed that the game uses code that was originally created for\u00a0Fallout Shelter, and there seemed to be some pretty fishy evidence to back that up. Speaking to the folks over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}