Korean rips off Final Fantasy, gets sued

**Shrygue** · December 11th, 2007, 17:49

via Computer and Video Games

A Korean music video company has been forced to pay up a total of $23,900 (approx. £11,700) for making a music video that looked too much like Final Fantasy VII.

The video, starring Korean singer Ivy (who's fit as you like, by the way), parodies Final Fantasy VII with a fight in a church scene fans of the game will recognise.

Understandably, Square Enix cast level 100 lawyer magic on the video maker Fantom Entertainment, for half-inching their IP.

Fantom was fined $10,900 after the Seoul Central District Court judge Gu Hoe-geun ruled that they had "illegally used 80 percent of the storyline, setting, characters and their styles of dress and their demeanours from video game Final Fantasy VII."

The company director was fined a further $6,500, as was the video producer, who said he "wanted to contact Square Enix to get permission, but couldn't find their contact info," reports Kotaku. He'll know better next time.

You can view the offending video , which you should then follow up with further searches for Ivy videos for additional perving.

**JKKDARK** · December 11th, 2007, 17:56

But it's not really useful for Square-Enix. £11,700 is nothing for this company.

**pibs** · December 11th, 2007, 18:00

Damn that video is horrible!

**mike_jmg** · December 11th, 2007, 18:12

Level 100 Lawyer Magic LOL

The song sucks, but the video is very well made for a simple music video

***quzar*** · December 11th, 2007, 18:36

I'm much more shocked that they were able to:

A) claim that a recreation of coreography was infringing on the copyright of the film
and
B) enforce a copyright in korea o-O

**idapimp** · December 11th, 2007, 19:20

that was really bad. i dont know how they could directly rip it off that bad and put crappy music to it and NOT think that they needed permission. damn retards.