About legal problems of showing in-game real aircraft...

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

What's even more outrageous is that from WWII to the present day all of these US military aircraft have been 100% taxpayer funded. The depiction of them being ground for NG, Lockheed, or GE getting money is ludicrous! If anyone should be getting that "fee" it should be the US taxpayers. There's a reason why GM, Ford, Porsche, etc, get to charge for games to use their products. Because they footed the bill to make them! Hell, a lot of companies push their products to be in films (see any Michael Bay movie) to get free advertising. Seeing how large the gaming market is (bigger than the movie industry) you'd think they'd be thrilled to have their products featured in a game.

Then again, the companies that cater to the US military are among the greediest most corrupt companies out there, and have no qualms with wasting billions of dollars of other people's money, or trying to squeeze a few extra dimes out of some little operation.

Actually there was a lot more to the old "Paciffic Fighters" legal incident, than representing American planes. Nobody cared if they modeled an old F-4U or F-4F.
They legally scewed the pooch so bad, that it would have been a miracle not to get sued over it.

Heres a quick scan I did to the rear CD cover of my Paciffic Fighters copy.
I highlited with green some trademark registered names represented correctly on the cover and with yellow the blunt stupid legal mistakes.


Nobody in his right mind would publish such a cover in the modern world. I'm not surprised they got screwed over. The problem is UBI was the publisher and it was responsible for what they publish.
In the end, it was UBI that screwed Oleg, not Grumman.