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PlayStation Japan recently uploaded a video that was intended to highlight some of the biggest releases for the PlayStation 4 this holiday season, but it seems there was more to the music video than first thought. The video featured titles like Death Stranding, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and others, accompanied by clips of animation under the direction of Kevin Bao. These bits of animation are what sparked the controversy, as other artists began to notice that the video used exact animations from other pieces of work from anime and cartoons, such as FLCL, Steven Universe, and Souviens Ten-Zan. A Twitter post below, from Catsuka, shows the exact moments and compares them with what the pieces assumedly originated from.

Latest Sony PS4 Lineup Music Video is a rip of many animations from all around the world ......
(Steven Universe, FLCL, Gobelins, Souviens Ten-Zan ...).
The video is now offline : https://t.co/LPWyFWzEEw
But you can still find it online : https://t.co/KfS79oRrs5 pic.twitter.com/6Q0hrFK2AT

— Catsuka 💙 (@catsuka) December 4, 2019

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Once the claims gained traction, Sony took the video down promptly, and quietly. (The above video is a re-upload.) Meanwhile, the studio that was in charge of creating the video, Eallin Animation, stated the following, in regards to the plagiarism claims:

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[smf]

Maybe the animation was meant to be recognized, as a parody/homage? Like this scene:

The problem with claiming parody is you have to go to court and explain the joke.

Otherwise you'd just claim that the reason you were selling millions of knock off dvd's of Star Wars 9 was for parody. It's totally hilarious right?

 

[wiired24]

The irony of this is just hilarious. Usually it's Sony going after copyright infringement. What's that old saying about people that live in glass houses?