{"id":455115,"date":"2025-12-18T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455115\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:06:10","slug":"sonys-legal-battle-against-tencents-horizon-clone-is-already-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455115\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s legal battle against Tencent\u2019s Horizon \u2018clone\u2019 is already over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a \u201cslavish clone\u201d of its popular Horizon series. But the legal battle is already over; the two companies have reached a \u201cconfidential settlement\u201d and the case has been dismissed with prejudice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26381827-sony-v-tencent-stipulation-for-dismissal-pursuant-to-rule-41a1aii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a court document filed on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Light of Motiram was announced last year, and the aesthetics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v0Of5Xjdwbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its reveal trailer<\/a> show a striking resemblance to Horizon the series, featuring lush landscapes, futuristic technology, and monstrous animal-like robots. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26381828-sony-v-tencent-complaint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its lawsuit<\/a>, Sony also alleged that Tencent used its \u201crip-off\u201d of Horizon protagonist Aloy as the \u201ccenterpiece\u201d of its marketing and promotional strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cTencent\u2019s unlawful copying of the protected audiovisual elements of the Horizon games, as well as its deliberate adoption of a confusingly similar character mark, constitutes both copyright and trademark infringement that should be enjoined immediately to prevent irreparable harm to [Sony Interactive Entertainment] and the consuming public,\u201d Sony said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cSIE and Tencent are pleased to have reached a confidential resolution and will have no further public comment on this matter,\u201d Sean Durkin, head of communications for Tencent Americas, tells The Verge. \u201cSIE and Tencent look forward to working together in the future.\u201d Sony didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":455116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,393,50,3767,19061,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-455115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-playstation","12":"tag-sony","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115739543861281916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}