小弟前几天看到的一篇新闻 今天正好有空转过来给大家看一下 顺便练习这不成材的翻译^^ 消息来源:http://ppt.cc/SuzY EA says the infringement is so severe, it's hard to distinguish Maxis' The Sims Social and Zynga's The Ville with an untrained eye. EA表示这个违法真的太严重了，没有受训过的眼根本无法分辨Maxis的The Sim Social 和Zynga的The Ville Electronic Arts announced on Friday that it has filed a a lawsuit on behalf of its Maxis Label against Zynga Inc. for infringing EA’s copyrights to its Facebook game, The Sims Social. EA在礼拜五宣布已经准备好一些对於Zynga诉讼的相关资料，主要是针对Zynga对於 The Sims Social的着作权侵权问题 According to the publisher, the complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on August 3, 2012. It alleges that Zynga has willfully and intentionally “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements of The Sims Social in a violation of U.S. copyright laws" with the launch of The Ville on Facebook. 根据公司发言人，这起诉讼在2012/08/03在北加州的美国地方法院提出，宣称Zynga蓄意 抄袭并且占用那些在The Sims Social原创以及独特的元件，违反美国着作权法，并且在 Facebook上开始营运The Ville "The similarities go well beyond any superficial resemblance," said Lucy Bradshaw, General Manager of EA’s Maxis Label, in a recent blog post. "Zynga ’s design choices, animations, visual arrangements and character motions and actions have been directly lifted from The Sims Social. The copying was so comprehensive that the two games are, to an uninitiated observer, largely indistinguishable. Scores of media and bloggers commented on the blatant mimicry." "两者间的相似不止於表面的相似"Lucy Bradshaw(EA在Maxis的经理特助)在一篇部落格上 说到，"Zynga在创作选择、动画、视觉效果、脚色移动和动作都是直接从The Sims Social拿出来的。这个抄袭太过广泛导致没有特别研究过的观察者根本无法分辨。媒体和 部落客都评论其明显的相似。" The Sims Social launched in August 2011, bringing the distinctive Sims universe to Facebook. EA claims that it became an instant hit, rapidly gaining "tens of millions" of users. The Sims Social currently maintains a user base of several million active players on the popular social network alone (the iOS and Android apps are separate). Meanwhile, Zynga's The Ville was introduced in June 2012, and Bradshaw claims the infringement of The Sims Social was "unmistakable to those of us at Maxis" as well as to players and the industry at large. 在2011年8月开始营运的The Sims Social，把独特的Sims带到全球，EA声称一推出就成为 轰动，并有大量的使用者加入。The Sims Social现在维持几百万的使用者(仍在使用的) 并且在各平台上都有。同时间，Zynga的The Ville在2012年6月开始营运，Bradshaw声称 其对於The Sims Social的违法行为是"对於Maxis是不可能会弄错的"(翻译不太对请见谅) ，对於这些玩家亦然。 "This is a case of principle," Bradshaw said. "Maxis isn’t the first studio to claim that Zynga copied its creative product. But we are the studio that has the financial and corporate resources to stand up and do something about it. Infringing a developer’s copyright is not an acceptable practice in game development. By calling Zynga out on this illegal practice, we hope to have a secondary effect of protecting the rights of other creative studios who don’t have the resources to protect themselves." "这是一个原则的问题"Bradshaw说"Maxis不是第一个宣称Zynga抄袭的公司，但我们是一 个拥有财力和有合作的资源(应该是EA的法律部门之类的)可以让我们可以站起来并且做 出一些事情，违反制作者的着作权在游戏界是不可被接受的型为，藉由叫Zynga停止这类 违法行为，我们希望可以有更多的效应帮助保护其他没有资源可以自保的创作工作室。" "Today, we hope to be taking a stand that helps the industry protect the value of original creative works and those that work tirelessly to create them," she added. "今日，我们希望可以藉由做出这些动作来保护这些创作的价值和那些日以夜继创作的人" 她说到。 As of this writing, Zynga has not responded to the lawsuit. 就在笔者写作此文的时候，Zynga对於这起法律诉讼并无回应。 心得: 要战了吗? 虽然EA有时也有点____ 不过Zynga最近某些游戏也实在营运的让我有点OOXX 且看龙头对决是如何? --

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