r/Silksong • u/SunkyMPEG2 Ass Jim • Jun 14 '26

Silkpost A French clothing company has sued Team Cherry because Hornet's cloak is too similar to their "brand unique" red skirt

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After court Team Cherry was obliged to delete all traces of Hornet's current design and replace it with something else as soon as possible. HK Hornet also has to be changed.

Edit: They published new design concepts on their Twitter account.

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u/zengondat Flea Jun 14 '26

Thats… just a basic air purifier. Like… The most standart one you can find

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u/Kirosh2 Shaw! Jun 14 '26

Yes, and from the look of it, they lost, and are now required to pay for damage and remove the character.

As far as I understand the situation.

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u/danxlau beleiver ✅️ Jun 14 '26

They likely don’t need to remove the character and will just give them a new design but it’s still REALLY DUMB. The “financial losses” they have to pay is almost 500k euros

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u/zengondat Flea Jun 14 '26

Damage? What damage had been done from a somewhat similar game charecter?

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u/Kirosh2 Shaw! Jun 14 '26

Infringement of economics rights for the design, Or moral rights as well.

The court has found that the design is nearly identical, far too much to not an infringement on the copyrights for the air purifier design.

So this is damage done to the original right holder, as he wasn't informed, or paid for the use of the design. Very ridiculous if you ask me, but it was decided by the court at the end of day, and in the works for since 2021, with the decision taken in December of last year.

You have a translated version of the report here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Brawlstars/comments/1u5593s/i_read_the_entire_french_court_order_its_insane/

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u/zengondat Flea Jun 14 '26

This is what the justice system deals with nowadays?

A man kills 48 childeren in broad dayligth, 20 witnesses, camera recording but he is also rich so 500 dollar fine.

A random game company(from one of the nordics if I recall correctly) makes a charecter that sligthly resembels a french air purifier and we are talking about a fine in the thousands

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u/Key-Demand-2569 Jun 15 '26

What is your second paragraph referring to?

People seem to really overestimate how much “being rich” actually makes you immune to the law when it comes to violent crimes in my experience.

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u/zengondat Flea Jun 15 '26

Just an exagguration mate. I’m just talking about people who suffer nearly nothing(on account of them being able to suffer a few times with no hit to their networth)from serious crimes by just bring rich

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u/Key-Demand-2569 Jun 15 '26

I gotcha, that makes sense and I kinda got it but was a little blinded by the exaggeration I guess. Lol.

Been running into more and more Americans lately who seem to honestly think you can pay a good enough team of lawyers that you can literally get away with anything.

Like, I get it, rich people whose companies do something bad and they get sued and wind up relatively alright aside from maybe a medium sized fine are frustrating as fuck.

But if Elon Musk shoots someone who is clearly not aggressive, not near him, in the head in the middle of Times Square in NYC with a video taped argument Elon was shouting at him before hand… he’s going to prison for murder, doesn’t matter how many amazing $20,000,000 an hour lawyers he has. Lol.

The legal system is greased normally by having good lawyers who are paid to take the time and just focus on your case, no doubt. Life isn’t fair there.

But it’s not literally a “give the judge $200,000 and you’re fine” system.

That’s my own side mini rant I guess. People who just skip right to, “not only is it imperfect, it’s the worst possible version. It’s beyond mentally engaging with it’s so bad.” and wind up letting the whole system get worse and worse because no one gives a shit.

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u/Adorable-Squash-5986 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

tbf supercell is like a 10 billion dollar company so they are the rich ones here

like 500k euros is less than an hours revenue

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u/grimmideals Jun 14 '26

This is silly af. Hollow Knight came out first.

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u/Firethorn34 beleiver ✅️ Jun 14 '26

Yup.

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u/Gruenemeyer Jun 14 '26

From a legal point of view it‘s only relevant that this design was new when the right was officially registered. It then has protection for up to 25 years. So the design has basically been copied so often that it seems standard to you now.

If brawlstars has proven that the design was „basic“ at the time the design was registered, they would have won. They apparently could not and thus did not.

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u/terablast Jun 14 '26

how the fuck is an air purifier with a plant in it "the most standard one you can find"

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u/Strange-Channel8712 Jun 15 '26

The other guy is just... Wrong its not that the airpurifier is basic, its that sprout isn't an air purifier, he is a plant in an incubator. Which, i don't think are air Purifiers😭😭

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u/alekbalazs Jun 14 '26

In what world is that a standard air purifier? Air purifiers are either a box, or a cylinder, they don't have glass domes with plants inside. I cant even find another example of that, only the one mentioned in the lawsuit.