Snk Sues Square Enix

[Thecrazyman]

Something I recently found yesterday, not sure if anyone else has noticed this but here's the link and the post from Screwattack as seen below: One of Square Enix's Tokyo offices was recently raided by the police

At 8/7/14 8:00pm, King Meatball I wrote:

According to a report from Siliconera, one of Square Enix's offices located in Tokyo was recently raided by the police as part of an on-going criminal investigation against the company.

The investigation is due to a criminal lawsuit SNK filed against Square Enix earlier in the year. The lawsuit states SNK's claims of having received no compensation for the use of its characters in a manga produced by Square Enix. Besides SNK, Capcom was also considering a lawsuit against Square Enix before settling for an undisclosed amount.

SNK alleges the Square Enix published manga series, High Score Girl, featured characters from its most popular franchises such as King of Fighters and Samurai Shodown, roughly 100 times.

Given the series is heavily centered on Japan's arcade gaming scene, the use of such characters in the plot makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, according to the studio's claims, neither High Score Girl creator Rensuke Oshikiri or Square Enix asked for SNK's permission to use said characters.

SNK officials say they had no idea their characters were being used in HGH until the animation house in charge of producing its anime adaptation contacted them about using the characters and music/audio clips from their respective games in the show. That's when SNK checked out the manga and discovered its characters were used without its blessing. Thus giving the company grounds to launch the lawsuit.
Destrutoid source

» Source: http://www.siliconera.com/2014/08/06/snk-filed-criminal-lawsuit-square-enix-copyright-infringement/
» Tagged In: #capcom, #community showcase, #Copyright Infringement, #lawsuit, #police, #Raid, #SNK, #Square Enix

On my personal thoughts, a number of people find it surprising to see this happen due to the fact that while Square Enix has been known to send Cease & Decease letters to fans that have been creating fan-made Chrono Trigger sequels as well as other things such as a English Translation to Final Fantasy Type-0 Square Enix on the other hand never bothered asking permission from SNK to even use their characters for the little known manga called High Score Girl as mentioned above.