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PUBG maker sues mobile clone, Apple, Google for copyright infringement - Ars Technica
Jan 14, 2022 1 min, 8 secs

Krafton's lawsuit thus goes into great detail laying out specific and general elements of PUBG that it says are illegally copied in Free Fire.

That includes everything from weapons and weapon attachments to armor, clothing, equipment, backpacks, and even "the overall choice of color schemes, materials, and textures." PUBG's unique building designs also come into play, because, the lawsuit says, "although buildings have been used in prior games, the façades and layouts of the buildings in Free Fire are strikingly similar to those in Battlegrounds.".

Krafton also notes the similarities between the maps in the two games, both of which feature "a graveyard, a port with shipping containers and a crane, a Southeast Asia coastal village, a shooting range, a small village, a farm, an airstrip, and a trestle bridge leading to a large adjacent island, among others." PUBG's in-game village of "Pochinoki" is even mimicked by a village in Free Fire named "Pochinok," the lawsuit says.

Even allusions to PUBG's famous "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner" victory message can be signs of copyright infringement, according to the lawsuit.

In Free Fire, the game displays a roast chicken on screen for a winning player, allegedly showing that "Garena copied Krafton’s expressive use of a chicken dinner theme to designate victory where other depictions could have been used to inject joy and whimsy into a game upon winning.".

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