The launch video for Microsoft's Xbox Series X console "borrows" from work by ANTIVJ (and a ground-breaking indie game, too).
Are independent artists doomed to be ripped off ?
— Nicolas Boritch (@nboritch_antivj) December 16, 2019
Today: Xavier Chassaing's Dry Lights video piece (2015 @ANTIVJ) next to @Microsoft's official @Xbox X video launch.
Any thoughts ?
Full original work still visible here : https://t.co/SX6jxDCn6N#XboxSeriesX #PowerYourDreams pic.twitter.com/vTBrsYiWT2
Looks very similar. Doesn’t surprise me coming from Microsoft.
Whoever designed the video for MS needs to do some explaining. Now, I wouldn't blame MS per se. Somebody or a group of people either in-house or contracted, created the MS video.... do you expect MS's marketing team to run some sort of algorithm to compare every submitted video to every other video on the planet? That's not how things work. Until the video went public, it's quite possible the only people who knew the MS video was copied were the people who created it. Do people expect MS employees to enter the boardroom and say "we discovered this small artist group and we like their video, so we're going to make the same thing"? That's just absurd
Man, this is becoming a problem. I’ve been seeing this for a PS4 animated ad. Like how do you not think someone won’t notice?