/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>30955099
as if she could ever win kek

>>30955099
I didn't know that skank had the copyrights for the word 'Melody' or the color purple

>>30955198
Look at the gun and the anime girl on it

>>30955145
They are just gonna remover it say soz and move on

>>30955285
That's not her, blindchama

In on drugs???? Wtf??? LOLOLOL

>>30955309
>believing that Activision gives a fuck about a Vtuber

>>30955358
they are literally here

>>30955358
Wow, I didn't know Gura invented the letter A
It's almost like it stands for "Anime"

she gonna get paaaid

>>30955361
They did care when some random nobody artist complained about them plagiarising his wolf furry soldier OC.
So yeah they will remove it but thats basically no punishment at all they are just gonna keep stealing and selling shit.

>>30955323
It's not literally just a picture of her but it's a pretty similar design, and both the girl and the gun have the same color scheme, not just purple.

>>30955401
oh my god anon you really think it's not a Gura reference when there's one called "Lurking Dead Beats" which makes no fucking sense unless you make the association with Mori and her song

>>30955451
Big fucking whoop. Do you think car brands get bent out of shape when GTA adds their cars to their game? Or how about IWI, do you think they give a shit when the Desert Eagle appears in fucking everything without the license?

>>30956059
false equivalence.

>>30955358
LEAN VAPE

>>30955358
As on the nose as this is, unless they actually didn't use any copyrighted images there's nothing they can do about it

Melody doesn't own the color purple, Mori doesn't own the words "dead" or "beats", and there's no actual images of them. Yes everybody knows the obvious reference but there's nothing they can do about it.

>>30955358
>lurking dead beats
Why “lurking” in this context?

>>30955099
Not the first time

>>30956059
>how about IWI, do you think they give a shit when the Desert Eagle appears in fucking everything without the license?
Certain manufacturers definitely do care.

>>30955099
Here is the Ironmouse "inspired" one

>>30955361
Botan was a commentator for CoD Japan event, newfagchama

>>30955358
Poor Ame. Even Activision makes fun of her poor gaming skills ahahah. Cunny high school girl named A... Parodies or references aren't illegal. But can lead to lawsuits.

>>30956059
>do you think car brands get bent out of shape when GTA adds their cars to their game
They actually do. They don't want their cars in a game that glorifies auto theft. There's a reason GTA cars don't have real world names.

>>30955099
I fucking hate everyone that goes AKSHUALLY YOU CANT PROVE IT or AKSHUALLY ITS ENOUGH VISUALLY DISTINCT
If you have stolen before everything you do will be judged through that lens, at least in my eyes I will give no fucking good will for a proven plagiarist (see >>30956284). So fuck Activision and I hope they fucking choke on dicks

>>30956590
pretty sure they tried to steal Amuro's logo for some other shit too, dunno how they thought that would fly

>>30955358
>the letter a and the word gremlin are now certified hololive inventions
Seriously, holonigger?

>>30956661
gundam's amuro?

>>30956808
Yeah

>>30956355
Ironmouse stole her name from Sailor Moon. Melody said took stuff from Motoko Kusanagi.

No matter how you feel about it personally and separate from any legality, a lot of people will think it's bad form to not ask first.

>>30956502
I think the real reason is that rockstar doesn't want to pay for car licensing fees. Because they canadd a car like pic related for free, which is pretty damn accurate to the real car, or they could pay some fee to chevrolet to get the car in the game. It's a no brainer. (Also other games that has violence and crimes were able to get actual licensed cars so it's not a violence thing).

What you described is what happened to Midnight Club. First two games used unlicensed vehicles but let you run over pedestrians. Third game used licensed cars but they removed the ability to run over pedestrians.

Wait wasn't COD Vanguard a WW2 theme FPS?

I don't see the issue
All these vtuber references are pretty much like that DOOG easter egg in doom

>>30955358
reference isnt theft, the reference are vague enough to only those who know know

this on other hand >>30956284 is

>>30955401
get the fuck outta here and send in a more subtle shill you're just embarrassing yourself

>>30955358
>high bitrate
who is this one about?

>>30956934
Well yeah. The guns are from around the time of WW2 and the story is pure fanfiction but when it comes to player customization, accuracy goes out the window and becomes what will get the big bucks. Also this content crosses over into Warzone.

Is this Fortnite or CoD? I genuinely can't tell any more.

>>30956851
Honestly that's a simple enough shape that it could easily be a coincidence.

>>30957118
Streaming in general

>>30957234
Like I said if you are a proven plagiarist you do not deserve ANY goodwill at all, so in my eyes they straight up stole that too

>>30955358
>New Cyberworld Order
That's…really on the nose.

>>30957469
Just a coincidence

>>30956700
In combination with all that other shit yeah, it's obvious where they got it from.

People still play COD?

>>30956355
>Not calling it the tungsten leech
Cringe

>>30958025
yeah, MW is fun

>>30957230
Warzone has been Fortnite for a while. There was a King Kong vs Godzilla event.

>>30958296
Modern multiplayer shooters having become living advertisements is a bummer. It feels like something from a custom Source or GO map back in the day, except a proffessional grade shitpost.

>>30958025
Cod got a massive boost in 2019 and has been on the climb since. Then Warzone came out mid pandemic so everyone who remembered the COD golden years of 2008-2012, jumped back in.

CoD came back so hard that when Vanguard turned out to be dogshit people actually cared and commented on it.

>>30957874
And? They still own any of it. No legal way to do anything about it.

>>30956355
That one is more Gura than Ironmouse
>glitchy
>”vod hunter” implying people watch vods on twitch
>”smol” pistol grip
>”Holo” point
>”Saw” off

>>30958567
>Modern multiplayer shooters having become living advertisements is a bummer
Apex of all things has barely done it which is crazy given EA has control over it.

>>30955358
The girl on the Melody gun.

>>30958695
Being legal doesn't make it right. The fact that it's technically not plagiarism doesn't mean everyone is going to pretend not to see what they've obviously done.

>>30958847
looks like kizuna Ai

>>30958847

>>30958847
It looks like they mixed a bunch of vtubers together.

>>30958924
yeah, not like the design, but the expression and general vibe made me think Kizuna Ai

>>30958783
Yeah, it kind of blows my mind. I guess the gacha is already successful enough.

>>30958847
>>30958924
>>30959050
Yeah these dumb vshojo whores think it’s about them lmao

>>30958783
They've done like reference-y things, but not out right collabs I think

>>30959226
It is about them too, they've "referenced" multiple vtubers here.

>>30955401
Gura doesn't know any anime

>>30959252
But this isn't advertising and they do it without paying for any license. These are basically the same as the references talked about in this thread, which I actually don't mind at all.
With EA I really would have expected the game to be full of actual Jedis, Battlefield soldiers and other EA owned shit flying around but the most they've done was add little gun charms that no one will ever even see during gameplay.

>>30955358
A casual reference in a text string isn’t going to win any lawsuit as it will fall under parody/fair use. It would only be an issue if there was a case of defamation or use of copyrighted materials (eg. Artwork, design, music)

As long as the text string is just “A” with a generic anime girl and not “Gawr Gura is a bitch-ass motherfucker, she pissed on my mom and said she had a fat cock that was THIS big and I said that’s disgusting” over a Chinese bootleg picture of Gura, nothing will come of this

"Melody" might cross the line since it is her actual name.

Copyright isn't the only thing that matters because some references can also infringe on trademark, like using someone's name without their permission.

>>30959715
Cover wouldn’t sue them like vshojo or nijisanji tho. Cover would ask them for a official collab like what happened with the Taco Bell commercial that had Gura in it and be done with it. Their was tons of Doujins and art works in comiket that were not official Hololive merch but their talents were still promoting them.

>>30960061
>like what happened with the Taco Bell commercial that had Gura in it and be done with it.
I'm pretty sure they had permission right from the start.

>>30959226
Everyone is getting ripped off here.

>>30955099
the best she can do is play it up for attention. its like pirating ip, people learn more about you

>>30955099
Not a lawsuit, but to create a loud enough uproar until the game dev got guilt tripped into an official collab with vshojo

>>30955099
And here we go...

https://youtube.com/shorts/LZwPXOh2ajw?feature=share

https://youtu.be/0z6tg_i2DsQ

https://youtu.be/GOOYonn5fR0

>>30960879
>>30955099
once again the chuuba just points something out and leaves it at that, while vtweeters and dramatubers hype it up into a full-blown scandal

>>30960212
Gura implied that they didn’t, she didn’t know about it. Then all of a sudden bam she gets a Taco Bell sponsored stream.

>>30955358
No Niji references...

>holomem included in a game
>grateful and happy
>vwhorejo included in a game
>bitchy and complaining

>>30961128
It happened in less than a week.

no no no guys it's just an homage that we did without asking anyone involved and that we also used similar but legally distinct images. lol like is it hard to just ask for permission and put in a small easter egg somewhere instead? are companies just run by complete fucking retards

>>30961407
Are these gun skins in the Cod game free? If not, then it can't be compared to the Doom easter egg.

>>30961407
And that’s why Hololive is the one getting all the game sponsorships and getting all the well made games. Fuck a studio even rolled the dice on making a Aqua game that’s actually going to be on the Nintendo switch and ps4. Hololive is leave a lot of money on the table doing this tho.

>>30959226
that would be a coincidence if it wasn't for the name and multiple other references in other guns.

>>30961619
Yeah but they are non profit games

>>30955358
>>30956284
>>30956928
>>30959252
Now, you may not think much of it, but if a non-corporate entity "referenced" characters or things from an IP owned by a megacorp like Activision, they WOULD be sued.

>>30955358
miko cat?

>>30961407
Sims recently put Hololive references in their new expansion. The lead dev(?) is also a KFP so go figure.

Well the lesson all can learn with this issue. Nobody gives a shit about Nijisanji ahahahahahah.

>>30962221
Nijisanji is 100% the type to sue you for all they can. That’s why they are losing a lot of their influence in the JP artist circles

>>30961884
>their new expansion
Thank you for reminding me of that shitshow.

>>30961407
Not the same.
Easter egg is not the same as a skin
Doom basically allowed Korone to shill, CoD didn't.

>>30962221
Rent free monkey

>>30961407
Remind me, which one is removed though?

>>30955418
In fairness, that furry soldier OC had some grounds of potential copyright worries.
This anime kit while it has some references to vtubers is so different that Melody doesn’t really have a case to stand on

>>30959226
It absolutely is, anon. This entire set is full of vtuber references.

>>30955358
>only hololive and vshojo references
NIJI STATUS?

>Melody invented Purple anime girl

>>30963677
>Melody invented purple anime girl named Melody
Yes

>>30963530
It’s full of references but not to Vshojo only. And outside of sharing a similar color scheme they didn’t rip off melody entirely, it’s just a mishmash of vtuber references.

>>30963677
>Gura invented the letter A

>>30963743
The acreenahot doesnt do it justice
Its better to see the ingame veraion it looks way more like melody

>>30963743
>not to Vshojo only
I didn't claim it was and I don't think Melody did either.

>>30955099
These are just references and obviously completely legal, but I assume asking the people you're referencing is just good manners in such a situation?
Also didn't Activision Blizzard just have an actual art plagiarism scandal with some furry wolf skin where the original artist complained on twitter? How does this even happen with a franchise as massive as CoD?

>>30961407
Easter egg that got removed vs paid skins
Yeah I wonder why

>>30961884
What references?

>>30955099
Who the hell she thinks she is eh? Did Pekora complain about this??

>>30965963
They do not sell that character for money fucking retard, its a couple of seconds in an anime

>>30957469
UMG might actually get mad considering music labels

>>30955099
TFW nobody here knows basic trademark law.
Colors are trademarked, you idiots. In fact, they’re the only thing that’s automatically trademarked without filing papers. As long as your brand is well known enough, you can sue competitors for using your color if you can prove they’re trying to pretend to be you.
If you’re a soda company and make up a logo that’s similar to Coke’s and uses the color red just like Coke, they can still sue you.
I have no idea if Melody would win, and I doubt she’d actually sue. But “she doesn’t own the color purple” is bullshit.
In contexts where it could reasonably be confused with her, Melody DOES own the color purple.
Some well-known anime girl from another IP with purple hair? Ok. Generic anime girl on a gun in Melody’s color with the word Melody in the gun’s name? Not ok, or at the very least, only something a big corporation would ever try to get away with

>>30967054
This. Melody is THE purple anime girl and is more known than any other anime girl with that color.

>>30967054 (me)
Some well-known anime girl from another IP with purple hair? Ok

Ok in the sense that a Japanese anime company wouldn’t care and is a big Japanese company that sees it as free advertising. An indie vtuber who isn’t happy with her brand being associated with something not related to her might think differently

>>30967193
They literally called it Melody.

>>30967271
Your argument is that it's all about the color and not the name. You said she owns purple.

>>30967336
I'm not the other anon but it's about both.

>>30967193
I addressed that at the end. If there wasn’t anything else to hint that it’s Melody (like the GUN being named Melody and having a bunch of other vtuber references), then it wouldn’t be a problem.
It just means that if you create a knockoff of a more famous brand that doesn’t use any of the original’s assets, but still the same color, you can be sued.
Frankly, if it was recognizable as some other purple haired girl I’m sure that anime’s company wouldn’t be happy either. I was thinking it would be less of a big deal because doujins, but I forgot this is Activision, not some doujin circle doing this for fun.

>>30967480
>Melody DOES own the color purple.

>>30967336
It’s both. A gun named Melody that doesn’t have a purple haired anime girl and a purple gun with a generic anime girl would both be fine.
A gun named Melody with a purple theme that’s alluding to vtubers? You can make a case that’s ripping off Melody because of both those things together.
Companies and people owning colors for trademark reasons isn’t as dystopian as it sounds. It just means that they consider it as a factor when they decide if you ripped off someone else’s fame

>>30967602
>In contexts where it could reasonably be confused with her
The context being something that also has an anime girl with a similar design and her fucking name would be one of those.

>>30967602
> In contexts where it could reasonably be confused with her
If you became a famous pop star who was known for wearing all blue, and some company made a commercial where they made fun of an actor who looked like you and was dressed in all blue and was basically just Not-You, you could sue them for defamation even if they never mentioned your name, because everyone knows they’re talking about you.
In that specific context, you would own the color blue, because you could mention the actor wearing all blue as an obvious sign they’re trying to depict you without saying it’s you.

>>30965963
the studio apologized for it and scrubbed the cameo from the dvd release

>>30965963
>Who the hell she thinks she is
Oh yeah, the almighty Activision should just be allowed to use other people's stuff to sell their shit whenever they want without complaint, who the hell does she think she is daring to say that maybe they should've at least asked?

>>30961771
This is the real problem here. This is a company that copyright strikes streamers. So it's entirely fucked and shitty that they just blatantly pander to fanbases or talents from corpos they've probably fucked over just for wanting to play a game of theirs.

>>30961802
Legally distinct silvervale reference to when she was an ammy reference herself. Could be argued it's miko combined with one of the cats in Holo.
The entire pack is loaded with VSJ references so it's most likely the former and an intentional winkwink nudge-nudge for "old school" watchers.

>>30963575
>Thinking Activision want to get into a legal battle with the Chinks that own stocks

Where does she even hint at a lawsuit? She was just commenting on the coincidence

>>30955099
Melody's voice is goofy but cute

>>30955099
>>30955358
It's funny, but imagine if any vtuber put Activision reference into their stream or model. They would get immediately DMCA'd.

>>30967920
wait seriously? I thought they only did that with Nene and with a character she voiced even, and only in Chinese broadcasts.

>>30970499
I love how everybody immediately starts trying to defend it from a legal standpoint when they're basically just saying "wow that looks like Melody".

>>30970857
People are autistic. Case in point: this thread.

>>30969224
I'm guessing Melody didn't realize that it actually was clearly a reference to her, so she was making a joke.

DICK RIDERRRRRRR

>>30955401
>>30956700
>Ackchyually it's not copyrighted so it's perfectly fine
Fuck off, imagine defending activision making money by blatantly referencing others

>>30972841
*Activision-Blizzard
ftfy chud

>>30956259
lyrics to dead beats

>>30955358
>Lurking dead beats
HOLY KEK

>>30972841
Imagine copyrighting the letter a several thousand years after it was created.

>>30974124
It's not the letter by itself, it's in combination with all these other vtuber references.

>>30955358
i'm not a v-tuber simp so I have no idea what you are trying to show me. its just generic anime shit

>>30955099
>>30955358

You don't even need to sue in this age. Just drum up a bunch of noise on Twitter and they'll back it down.

>>30974808
>v-tuber simp
whatever hole you crawled out of, you need to go back

>>30967054
>>30967193
>comparing some shitty obscure v-tuber with fucking coca-cola
shut the fuck up retard

>>30955099
Unfortunately you can't sure over a color scheme and name combo unless they're trademarked.

>>30974981
saw this thread on the home page. It will be my last visit. enjoy your shit

>>30958567
I dunno I play a lot of world of tanks, and they are currently having a warhammer 40k tie in, and I am rather enjoying it. A few years ago they had a Girls und Panzer tie-in, and I think people enjoyed it. But if they were constantly advertising things I hated that would be annoying

>people actually giving a shit about copyright and getting assblasted on behalf a whore who got referenced in a video game
lol
lmao

>>30961884
>lead dev is a KFP
Glad I've never played Sims

>>30970499
>Lindsey Lohan with Rockstar
Wasn’t that a completely different person?

>>30974124
You know exactly what i'm talking about, stop acting like a retard.

>>30978301
Yeah, the case was thrown out because Rockstar provided evidence they based that design off some random model.

>>30955099
not enough for a lawsuit

>>30955358
Not like this fellow cyberworld bros...

>>30955099
>lawsuit?
nothing is going to happen

>>30972841
>holobronies open an elementary school ABC book
>see the letter A
>WOW THEY COPIED GURA

>>30955099
Teste

>>30955099
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH2GyDzx3s
>Ironmouse uses Cover's IP without permission (Calliope Mori)
Creative Freedom and Fair use
>Activision uses Vshojo IP without permission
Piracy and Copyright Infringement

I can't believe this thread got the attention it had.

>>30955099
Everyone on Twitter has shit takes. The platform's userbase self selects for them. People try desperately to be witty without being honest or offensive, and that creates a constant deluge of cringe.

In reality, this deserves nothing more than a condescending head pat. She's an anime fan, and has presumably violated copyrights ten times over for a great many years. Watching that anison illegally uploaded and distributed on YouTube? IP violation. Those streaming sites that upload subbed anime? Yup. Sad panda? Absolutely. Playing Stray on stream? I hope she formally licensed all the audio and visual IP prior to playing it.

tldr Cinnamon rolls aren't valued for their intelligence or ethical consistency.