So, either Marvel are trying to buy out 40k, or a copyright was between Disney and Games Workshop is about to begin

A quick google turns up some other examples.

It doesn't even look like the artist drew them. Like he just photoshopped a screenshot from Dawn of War or something.

As long as GW doesn't start anything, which they won't it won't even register anywhere. Until some bigger outlet reports on it, no one will notice and even then it's just free publicity.

>It was an HOMAGE!

Is he flying off in a Falcon grav tank?

Dude they axed fucking Chapter Master, some obscure fan game from the the bay13 forums. You think they wont notice this?

If you look closely, you'll notice the teeny tiny hatch on the circular side doors haven't been scaled up to fit on the portal they are supposed to cover, revealing the ground underneath.

I think its a 3d model ripped from DoW and poorly scaled up, before being screenshot and put in there digitally.

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GW officially killed Chapter Master? This may be old news but I had no idea...

How can they do that under fair use?

>some obscure fan game
Axing that is easy. Fucking with the Mouse when your own "ip" is mostly derivative is suicide.

Haha, also the drones don't fit in their docks. Dunno how I noticed the hatch first.

Here's that hatch from the side. Definitely some kind of DoW asset.

I don't think that that will hold up in court. Especially sine this literally looks like it was ripped from DoW

Also the drones aren't scaled up and the symbol is literally the t'au sept symbol

>Kept the tau symbol
kek

I think he is.

They did, but he just renamed everything and made the 40k stuff a "mod".

How is it even contestable though? I mean those are Tau ships. Nobody can fucking deny that. They aren't even DRAWN. They have the Tau Symbols on the fucking sides of them.

What the hell?

This is straight up plagarism. Not only that but It's 40k doesn't exactly seem like the kind of thing disney would like to be associated with, what with all the genocide, nazi iconography, ultraviolence, and other less than savory things in it

The guy managed to make a bolter look even more dumb

Maybe this is where he got the model from. Some website has a pack of them you can download for Poser and whatnot.

There's a fucking signpost on the top of it.

That looks to be it almost exactly
Which means that two places are likely gonna be sued

Anyone got Geedubs email?

A triangular one. And it appears to be some sort of grappling weapon. With a magazine and maybe an ammo hopper

Looks like he used that model with a really shitty cel shader to try to cartoonify it.

Oh, GW knows about it, Veeky Forums already saw to that.

check their site

Eh, I think it's good advertisement for GW. Tau are already not every popular, this will get some people who aren't into 40k to recognize 40k weapons and tanks.

>graphicpolicy.com/2016/04/28/is-that-tau-in-venom-space-knight-paging-gw-lawyers/
>Update: We have heard back from Games Workshop who has said they are aware of this and it has been passed along to their legal team for further investigation.

Would it be a good thing if Disney brought out GW? I don't think anyone at GW would really hold out if Disney gave them a whopping great sum for the Warhammer IP.

Tau are retardedly popular since they're the strongest army in the game currently
And it's not really advertising since this is straight up plagarism
The real question is do we have the artist's email or someone at disney

It'd be bad for everyone involved, since it'd likely mean that the warhammer settings would get sterilized and it'd be a huge black mark for disney considering how 40k is

These guys might have it right.

Pretty sure Disney could keep this in court for a hundred years.

They could, but it'd be easier to just can the artist and pay a settlement. probably wouldn't do good for marvel if people knew that they supported plagiarism

Fantasy already got sterilized into Age of Sigmar.

What are you talking about it's an open and shut case with no way to win, Disney will settle out of court...

I will never not laugh at that pic.

Not to mention that the mouse has LITERALLY nothing to gain from dragging it out
The closest link disney has to warhammer is through FFG's X-wing miniatures game which is A) already outselling all of GW's stuff, B) a licensed thing so the mouse doesn't even get most of the cash, and C) produced by a company that ALSO has licenses with games workshop
The only thing disney has to gain from turning this into a court case is bad publicity for supporting plagiarism and a chance to piss off the people who fucking buy marvel comics

I'm amazed they'd put something like these to print. I know it's comics and there's basically no standards but still they're clearly bad looking 3d models.

I can't stop rolling my eyes at all the idiots who go "Disney can just outspend GW to deflect the lawsuit". Why the fuck would they? They're gonna go the path of least resistance, make a settlement with GW outside of court, which will be a fraction of what they would otherwise have to spend.

It's made even dumber when you consider that Disney has almost nothing to gain from this. If they win the lawsuit they what, get the right to use a shitty version of a 3d model some guy made? Even if they did win that artist would probably get canned since HE GOT THEM INTO A FUCKING LAWSUIT

Yeah if nothing else they look shit and out of place.

Meanwhile GW, will be SUPER willing to take a settlement even if its a small one, because hey its cash, and the prospect of potentially losing control over part of their IP would terrify them.

Pretty much. The only side with anything to gain from this is GW, and disney probably made enough cash from that issue alone to pay off GW.
Or hell, just give them .1% of what the latest marvel movie made and they're happy

Nope. Chapter Master is fine.

Currently it's being remodeled to work better by the new guys in charge.

Next update is on 15th May.

Or, absolutely nothing will happen at all. The artist's a hack, but this is completely non-consequential.

>implying GW will dare to startcopyright war with Disney/Marvel

Nobody said they are going to outspend them. Again, you don't fuck with Disney when pretty much all of your IP is built in ripoffs and you rely on not getting noticed by the bigger fish.
I'll give you a hint: Do you know who owns the movie rights to Judge Dredd and Starship Troopers?

its so fucking blatent

This isn't worth the mouses time and resources.

GW knows they won't win a straight fight without substantial effort, but the mouse also doesn't want this fight, its easier to settle out of court with a token sum. That way GW doesn't have to defend its patent and neither company has to get involved in a fight neither wants.

its really weird to be on games workshops side on a copyright matter for once

No Disney has no legs to stand on in this case. I can't remember what its called (I think its fair use in the US) but in copywright law what this artist has done is illegal, and what GW did is not.

According to the Internet there's a necron somewhere in there too

Yep. There was on the one with the not!Eldar Grav-Tank.

Jesus Christ, they didn't even fucking TRY to make it less obvious.

I thought Disney didn't own the comic rights to Marvel, just the movie rights.

somebody should make rules for fielding Marvel heroes in 40k games

Iron Man would be Smashfucker x 9000

The comics and movies operate under different subsidiary companies, but the Walt Disney Company owns all of Marvel.

You mean Fantasy was IMPROVED into Age of Sigmar.

Please go back to your circlejerk general and stay there.

/co/ - Veeky Forums 1:0

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/co/s always been the closest board to Veeky Forums anyway. Besides /d/

Yet still we owned you.

ell oh ell

That one's more ambigous, it's clearly "inspired" but I wouldn't say to the point of being any sort of trademark infringement?

Not really. /v/ is the closest, followed by /a/.
/co/ is the closest with 40k though, but that's hardly reflective of the larger Veeky Forums population.

/v/ and /a/ aren't anything like Veeky Forums.

They need to seriously chill the fuck out before than can become true.

>Marvel makes a 40K Movie
>Disney allows them to be somewhat grim dark
>Russos directing
I'm ready

Why? Since 40k is the biggest wargame.

I saw /v/s threads about the announcement of DoW III.

All they did was bitch about it.

You're implying /co/ is anything like Veeky Forums?

Only if you're implying the worst parts of Veeky Forums.

I assume you didn't see DoW 3 screenshots.

It's its own thing, and doesn't really play nice with anything else (there's few things worse than trying to make a 40k crossover).
And, while the largest wargame, D&D remains as the biggest game overall, with MTG following.

Most of Veeky Forums memes are whrelated. Except quest threads most of Veeky Forums threads is also related with GW.

Man, /co/ isn't exactly the best board on this site, but at worst its still better than /v/ and /a/.

Maybe I'm just burned out on those boards bullshit though.

Most of the Veeky Forums memes you pay attention to. Try not to let your perceptions color your world too much.

I'd actually argue that /co/ is far worse than /v/ or /a/, but that's partially a matter of taste, and partially a matter of the tumblr influence.

/a/ and /v/ can be pretty bad, but /co/ gets downright horrible.

Not the first time this has happened. Off the top of my head Disturbed's shitty Land of Confusion cover has multiple MKI Rhinos

Bingo! We have a winner.

FD: I am a former Marvel employee. Print production.

1) Marvel doesn't give a shit about this stuff. The "talent" that they hire cribs, copies, traces, "references" and outright steals on a very regular basis. Due to the sheer volume of work they put out in a week they either never know, or when it is brought to their attention they write it off as an artistic "choice." I know this because I hate Greg Land on a personal level and used to bring every instance of his tracing to my boss...and every time they turned a blind eye because despite all decency in this world his shit moves units. Granted Ariel OIivetti is basically a nobody...and Marvel wouldn't mind tossing him under the bus to make a point...but they don't HAVE to do that because...

2) While GW might be notoriously quick to pull out their legal phallus against forums, websites and tiny one-man operations, there is very little chance that they would want to pick a fight with Disney, a corporation whose throbbing legal member would probably make them walk away believing they stole the Tau from Marvel.

>Implying that the 'stealing/disappearance' of Tau is a bad thing

>not realizing that car design has existed since the '80s in the Terran Trade Authority books, as well as being a design mockup for the Spinners in Bladerunner.

Those are an old, old, old design, guys.

>Tau go the way of the Squats, destroyed by an all-consuming intergalactic monster that casts shadows in hell itself
Yeah, I can see it happening.

Man they didnt even file off the tau logo. They might as well have written "we got this from GW" on it.
Its literally ripped from dawn of war. See They just resized a few things like the door hatch and the drone.

Non-40k-player here. What's going on in the pic?

I also dont play 40K but as far as I remember the space marine dude was running a white scar army where all of it starts the game in reserve since he figured the tau guy would have a normal tau gunline.
The Tau guy actually had a shitload of kroot which he infiltrated onto the marine guys side of the board so he wasnt able to bring anyone in and instantly lost.

It's from a few editions back, but it's a glorious moment

The dude in the white has a cheesy list where his entire army starts in reserve (off the table) and can "move" into the game on the enemy's starting side after the game begins, which is a pretty huge advantage - the enemy can't shoot them, and they get into combat faster.

The guy with the grin knew this tactic, and deployed his force - a few very big infantry units, with maximum spread between models - in such a way that the other guy's army has no eligible way to come onto the board. The army is defeated because it can't arrive, despite not a single unit being killed

Again. I don't disagree with you. This is half the reason I am a former Marvel employee (the other half is shit compensation). But due to a combination of being shielded by Disney and literally printing money in the film department Marvel definitely has the unique ability to not give a single fuck about something so trivial as some freelance shithead adhering to silly laws. Worst case scenario they burn Olivetti because he is not a Marvel employee and they continue going about their business.

But nothing will happen, because this is so trivial to both companies.