Riot Games is suing Vietnamese game developer Imba Network over its Teamfight Tactics clone.
The California-based League of Legends studio filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing Imba’s game, I Am Hero: AFK Tactical Teamfight, of copyright infringement., Riot is seeking $150,000 for every copyright violation it has listed in the lawsuit, including copying paragraphs of character lore text verbatim and stealing character designs, among other offenses. It is also asking the U.S.
Lawyers representing Riot said they went one step ahead and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Imba along with an “extensive but non-exhaustive side-by-side chart of copied characters and gameplay elements.” According to the lawsuit, Imba responded to the letter by denying the copyright infringement. Among many elements of the game, Riot laid out similarities in character designs and names, noting that some of the letters in their names have been switched around and the adjectives describing the characters were replaced with words that are synonymous to them. For example, Teemo from Teamfight Tactics is called Tomee in Tactical Teamfight and he’s called “The Hasty Scout” in comparison to the alliterative nickname “The Swift Scout.
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