How can they release these skins and not be sued by Koei?

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How can they use these characters and designsz without being sued for plagerism???

Itdbe like if they had hal bolingbroke or setebos without asking the shakespear foundation

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I don’t think Koei own exclusive rights to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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I don’t think Koei actually owns rights to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. And even if they did, they’re a Japanese company, and Blizzard is American… I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are loopholes in copyright laws that allow Blizzard to get away with it.

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Someone owns the rights to what historic Chinese generals looked like???

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I didn’t say they did…?

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Whoops Did I reply to you? I was talking to OP (sorry if I clicked wrong one)

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Yes lol, that’s why I was confused! :slight_smile:

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms probably isn’t even copyrighted to begin with. But since these are real historical people, it doesn’t matter regardless.

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Koei does not own the novel nor the historical time period of China, or else they’ll have to sue Creative Assembly next. All they have is two game franchises loosely based on said novel.

The only thing that could somewhat be argued is that the design is somewhat based on Koeis work in Dynasty Warriors as they popularized the fantasy considering we will never know how said people actually looked like except what is depicted in Chinese art which isn’t even close to the fantasy.

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i have the playbooks but i think they changed the names to avoid copyroght by koei cao cao to t’sao t’sao for example because the play is based on dynasty warriors.