Square Enix Sues Final Fantasy Cosplay Parody for $325,000

This one enter in my grey area.
It goes like this:

My personal morals and principles are ALWAYS against big corporations trying to sue others for copyright infringement... mainly because I'm against copyright laws.

I personally think that copyright laws as they are today create a miriad of problems that is so deep in our culture people can't, won't, or just refuse to see.

- Families living on the sucess of their parents even when they don't deserve it and have contributed nothing to society;
- Anonymous singers that has fortunes enough to feed the starving population of an entire African country only because they made one record that had sucess in the past;
- Corporations that has so much money from charging absurd prices on their products who fuels Associations like RIAA and MPAA to sue individuals who commited no crimes but try to make a living;

And the examples go on.

With a culture like that, also tons of people not only accepts that, but also grow up trying to be part of it.
To make a big invention and retire for the rest of their lives, to make one big music hit thinking of the money and not on the fans, to use the legal system milking money from others...

BUT, if we are to conform with present laws and how big corporations act, yes, this lawsuit is to be expected.

And everything who copies, be it a tribute or not, should be worried too.
Basically it goes like this: Big companies like Square Enix, tons of Hollywood studios, and record labels conveiently pick what they should or shouldn't put a lawsuit on.

It's like a mining process. Some people who copy their content will have the money to pay, and people/fans/local justice system will agree said people deserved that lawsuit.

In this specific case Squeenix hit jackpot.

In other cases, like let's say, a cosplayer who yes, gets some money from it, but not much. A lawsuit will result in loss of money, in fans protesting, in the loss of free publicity, and in contradicting the common sense that cosplay is a harmless and even profitable copy of their content. Some will call it "tribute", but if you think straight, any copy can be considered "tribute".

So yeah, it's our old rotten pure capitalist math. Nothing else.

The very same idea applies to fansubs, fanart, videos that are removed or not from YouTube, and stuff like that.

Unfortunately, it's the age we live in. Corporation rights always superseed that of individuals.

They rape the FF again

Should they sue the make of Dead Fantasy as well??

WHAT THE HELL SC!???? FUCKING OLD!!?!?????????

i thought this was an AV for a second. no tifa titties? nigga please i'm outta here.

I remember an interview of "Weird Al" Yankovic I have heard - Weird Al is one of the best maker of parody music and videos, the reason he never get sued for his work is simple, he always ask permission so nobody gets bent out of shape.

Parody is not an issue in this Korean MV, it's clearly reproduced the scene and costume for it's own commericial purpose, not a parody intended to pay homage to FF7AD, so saying it's a parody in court would not make it a vaild defense anyway.

Cosplay is not an issue here either, it's clearly for commericial purpose here, so it breaks the unwritten rule where copyright owner usually don't sue if the cosplaying is for private interest.

WTF IS THIS CRAP!>:(

Old news is old.

full of copy MV from thailand "FF8 and FF10 fusion"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnJ3S97aPI

I'm more insulted by the constant horrible abuse of Beethoven and other classical composers by people that can't write music

Old news. I heard about Square Suing the korean company that made this music video about a year ago.

the ONLY CG in the music video is special effects there is no Footage from advent children this BS would never fly in the US

a bit late to start suing. this video has been around for years

LOL PWNED! hahahaha

Haha Koreans. Fuck them.

Old news is old.

Wow that was really well done... and I kinda like the song too. Do I spot Reno among the dancers in the dancing scenes?

아이비 좆됐내..

Whatever the outcome of the suit, I'd like to see what the director of that video would do with a good full-length feature script. If the video is any indication, the visual effects alone would be worth a look.

Damn Korea~

K-pop = insta-fail. The video was a good attempt but the adult models were fail. Now I see why SquareEnix wants to sue them xD

one thing is for sure
that's an ugly as tifa
tifa has bigger boobs too lol

Compare to getting sued by a student this seem perfectly normal.Now we all know where SE got their money to buy Edios.

pfft they should be paying the directors of the music video. The video is better shot than most Japanese theater movies and videos put together.

Shameless KimuTifaｗｗｗ

I think SE should also sue the company for choosing a butt ugly girl to cosplay Tifa. That's a grave insult to the very pretty Tifa. XD

You get what you deserv...

Violation of the (c) what would they expect, cookies? :P

it's ok because it's like advertise...

what a kill joy, square are

And people will continue to zombishly throw money at SE so they can support their many lawyers to sue fans who do this.

That's why SE games are so overpriced.

parody lame

never have i rofled at an article so much. SUCKS TO THEM! LOL

Square won in Korean court!?
how unusual...

well anyway, justice has won.
cosplay is OK, but this was too commercial.

I'ma get flamed by all of you for this I guess, but honestly, nobody noticed the script at the start in the ottom saying that this a recreation of the scen from FF vii AC for commerical usage? Of course I could be making a fool out of myself with posting this, but you guys are being idiots for being so obsessed with it. And no I do not dislike SE nor do I dislike Korea, I have the FF vii AC dvd, I liked it, and yes I did like this video, even though it was yet another fur elise one

humm surely someone's gonna sue them for using beethoven's 5th? or did they pay their dues for that at least?

OMG that was FULL of FAIL!!! ripping of FFVII like that... I REALLY wonder what they were thinking when they produced that video, and surely, SURELY, they must've seen FFVII Advent Children to get the Ideas.... sometimes i wonder about some people, but they got what they deserved :D

This is crazy that Square would sure for so much money.........damn

what is this music at second video. so nice

It looks a bit too much like the ripped material to be called a parody or rendition, besides they made this video for monetary purposes. If it was a bunch of cosplayers just having fun I'd call bullshit, but this is a professional work.

Also about the double standards: happens everywhere, Japan is no exception.

the music video is utterly black fro the whole 4 minute with text running but still no music??

is it broken link?

They copied to make money, they have to pay money. Perfectly alright.

Not the best stuff, still probably better than anything Hollywood can produce.

Hmm.. Korea? Bet some are claiming "We did this first!!" just like Robo Taekwon V..