![]() ![]() VIDEO GAME MAP DESIGNER LICENSE“Naughty Dog seems to have known that they couldn’t use the official map without paying a hefty license fee, so it looks like they just went on the Internet and found another one. Prior to resolving the conflict, Booth assumed that because the company couldn’t claim rights to the T’s actual map, they used the redesigned version to avoid paying “hefty fees,” something Booth initially called “ completely unacceptable” and “hugely ironic,” because designers are always complaining about piracy in the industry, he said. It’s been a hell of a last couple of days,” Booth wrote. A lot of mutual respect for each other’s creative work. I likewise apologized for my initial vitriolic post. “I can say that they do acknowledge their error in using my map and were very apologetic for it. ![]() “I am attempting to open communications with them now to ask where they came across the image, how it ended up in their game-with very pointed questions about their approvals and legal process-and what kind of compensation I can expect for the theft of my work,” Booth wrote on his blog.īy Tuesday afternoon, however, he was able to get through, and had a “constructive conversation” with the company about the use of his image. He said he reached out to Naughty Dog to talk about the use of his map, but had not heard back from any representatives from the company. Prior to its release, screen shots of specific MBTA stations featured in The Last of Us were posted on the company’s website, showing parts of the Orange and Blue Lines.īooth said he found out about his map being used without permission when he stumbled upon a “randomly-discovered Tweet” on Twitter from someone who had captured a screen shot of the gameplay. The person who discovered the map’s use praised the gaming company for their accuracy, despite the fact that they didn’t reach out to Booth for the OK to use the original artwork.īooth’s map is a redesign of the MBTA’s official subway map that he created in March of 2012. He compared the two maps on his blog. ![]()
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