Master Chief Makes PS3 Appearance

[Shrygue]

via Gamedaily


Earlier this week, a blog in Business Week reported that someone had created a Master Chief model for Unreal Tournament III, available on the PC and PS3. This raised immediate concerns of copyright infringement and other issues with Microsoft. John Porcaro of Gamerscore Blog responded by pinging one of the Xbox lawyers and found out there was nothing wrong with such usage.

"Many people are talking about the Master Chief mod for Unreal Tournament 3, that allows you to play in the character of the Master Chief on the PS3. Many people are surprised Microsoft is "allowing" this," said a post by blogging lawyer 'DonkeyXote.' "Actually it's nothing more than the Game Content Usage Rules ( http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/developer/rules.htm) in action. When these were developed, people all thought they were focused on machinima. The truth is that while they do address machinima they also allow for a lot of other things. Mods like this are one of them. The developers aren't selling the mod, they're not monetizing Microsoft's IP, they're just creating something to share their love of the Master Chief on a new platform. It's a great thing for us and a great thing for the gaming community."

[acn010]

lol..where can i download lol

[DPyro]

And they said it would never happen.

[**1_Man_Matrix**]

Im impressed everyone's taking this so well, especially Microsoft, good on them.

It's true, in the end, we are all gamers, yes we are competitive as all hell, but we still have our roots in common.

Now for Hale in Halo

[ExcruciationX]

Maybe PSPdemon can try the Halo project for PSP again without a cease and desist?

[wolfpack]

Maybe PSPdemon can try the Halo project for PSP again without a cease and desist?

anything is possible
That demon can have many ideas up his sleeve

[bah]

From another of the spambot threads on this topic:

Legal teams only act on behalf of the wishes of the person/company that pays them to do so.

The lawyer's masters are hardly likely to object to PC/PS3 users seeing an XBOX mascot. It's only when something is against a company's interest that they instigate legal action and non profit fan recreations become illegal.

The law is about making grey areas black and white (drawing a line). It wont be defended if people crossing it benefits the 'owner' of the 'property'.

Large numbers of the target market thinking 'hey, that's the Halo guy. That game is on XBOX.' is a marketer's wet dream and when marketing is happy the lawyers are kept in wait of a less fortuitous situation.