{"id":73259,"date":"2019-01-03T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/333752"},"modified":"2019-01-03T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:41:00","slug":"bethesda-resolves-copyright-lawsuit-against-westworld-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/bethesda-resolves-copyright-lawsuit-against-westworld-devs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda resolves copyright lawsuit against Westworld devs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda Softworks has resolved a lawsuit it brought against Behaviour Interactive and Warner Bros. last June for copyright infringement, breach of contract and unfair competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda released a statement earlier today claiming it had reached an agreement with Behaviour, although no further information was given.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bethesda Softworks and Behaviour Interactive jointly announced today that the parties have amicably resolved the lawsuit Bethesda brought against Behaviour and others related to the\u00a0<em>Fallout Shelter\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Westworld<\/em>\u00a0mobile games,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320619\/Westworld_bug_outs_stolen_Fallout_Shelter_code_alleges_Bethesda_lawsuit.php\">Bethesda\u00a0accused Warner Bros. and Behaviour<\/a>\u00a0back in June 2018 for copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, deceptive business practices, and unfair competition\u00a0with the release of a\u00a0<em>Westworld\u00a0<\/em>mobile game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda\u00a0took legal action after\u00a0pointing out\u00a0<em>Westworld&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0apparent similarities to\u00a0<em>Fallout Shelter<\/em>, accusing\u00a0the former of copying \u201cthe same or highly similar game design, art style, animations, features, and other gameplay elements&#8221; as\u00a0<em>Fallout Shelter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. and Behaviour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321002\/Warner_Bros_calls_Bethesda_lawsuit_against_Westworld_game_baseless.php\">followed up with a statement<\/a> shortly after the complaint was filed, saying that the accusations made against them were baseless.<\/p>\n<p>Gamasutra has reached out to Bethesda for any additional comments, and this piece will be updated should one be received.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda Softworks has resolved a lawsuit it brought against Behaviour Interactive and Warner Bros. last June for copyright infringement, breach of contract and unfair competition.\u00a0 Bethesda released a statement earlier today claiming it had reached an agreement with Behaviour, although no further information was given. &#8220;Bethesda Softworks and Behaviour Interactive jointly announced today that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73259","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=73259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}