{"id":2673,"date":"2020-04-28T17:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:56:52","slug":"using-trademarked-objects-in-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2020\/04\/28\/using-trademarked-objects-in-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Using trademarked objects in a video game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Depicting<\/p>\n

There’s no shortage of legal issues<\/a> in video games, but the recent court case AM General LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc. et al, No. 1:2017cv08644 – Document 218 (S.D.N.Y. 2020)<\/a> was decided in a way that surprised me:<\/p>\n

The judge ruled that<\/a> Activision Blizzard can use Humvees in Call of Duty<\/em> without any kind of license from the manufacturer, given that it ties in with an\u00a0artistic\u00a0<\/em>goal and does not mislead about the source of the work: “if realism is an artistic goal, then the presence in\u00a0Modern Warfare<\/em>\u00a0games of vehicles employed by actual militaries undoubtedly furthers that goal.”<\/p>\n

Military vehicles would not be my choice of example, but it’s an interesting twist.<\/p>\n

However, and as always, even with this ruling, this remains the kind of freedom of speech best exercised with a large legal team on your side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no shortage of legal issues in video games, but the recent court case AM General LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc. et al, No. 1:2017cv08644 – Document 218 (S.D.N.Y. 2020) was decided in a way that surprised me: The judge ruled that Activision Blizzard can use Humvees in Call of Duty without any kind of … Continue reading “Using trademarked objects in a video game”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}