Posted on 02/04/2021 7:44:00 AM PST by BenLurkin
The complaint filed against Activision states that the Call of Duty publisher copied the Cade Janus photographs, without Haugen’s knowledge or consent, and used them to create Mara in Modern Warfare. A photograph entitled “Cade Janus 16” was found in a development document called “Project Odyssey” dated Sept. 8, 2017. The same photo was found on the casting page of Project Odyssey under the heading “The Face of the Near Future.”
Haugen and his representatives believe this establishes Activision had access to the images of Cade Janus and were actively aware of those images as they developed the character of Mara. Infinity Ward, the developer behind Modern Warfare, also hired the same model Haugen employed in his original shoot to pose for photographs and three-dimensional scanning to develop the Mara character in the game. Infinity Ward also hired the same makeup professional to prepare the talent as she had done for the Cade Janus shoot. According to the complaint, the company also tried to use Haugen’s wardrobe and props for the Call of Duty shoot.
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i need to take a look at the raw data... perhaps a stripped down version.
Either way she’s not guilty!!! Severely.
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Neah.
The hair style is damning. Way too obvious they copied it. .
Eyebrows are totally different
They should have parted her hair on the other side - problem solved.
The fact that they used the same model (Alex Zedra) for both Cade Janus and Mara makes it hard to prove IMO. Alex has done gun-bunny pinups for other companies and on Instagram for years. (And, she’s actually a serious 2A supporter who knows how to shoot the guns she’s modeling with.) Like you said, the trope is pretty generic.
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They used the same model, so not surprising the hair is similar. The person suing Activision is the photographer. It is kind of a weird case, but seems like the photographer is overreaching.
>> also hired the same model Haugen employed in his original shoot to pose for photographs and three-dimensional scanning to develop the Mara character in the game. Infinity Ward also hired the same makeup professional to prepare the talent as she had done for the Cade Janus shoot.
If the contract of the model and the contract of the makeup professional did not have “non-compete clauses” then those people were free to work on another project.
When Roger Moore went from being The Saint to being James Bond, did they get to sue for making James Bond look and sound like The Saint?
At what point is a 3-D capture of an actor/actress/model trademarkable whereas the actor/actress/model himself/herself is not?
The other gaming company would have more of a case.
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