PUBG Corp is suing Fortnite’s creators for copyright infringement

PUBG Corp has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Fortnite developer Epic Games. The swimsuit was filed in opposition to Epic Games Korea through the Seoul Central District Court again in January, as PUBG Corp requested the courtroom to find out whether or not Fortnite Battle Royale was infringing on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

If you’ve been dwelling beneath a rock for the previous yr, you gained’t keep in mind that PUBG rose to prominence over the summer time of 2017, amassing a concurrent participant depend of greater than 3.2 million at its peak. Fortnite was first launched final July, however was restricted to its PvE mode, Save the World, earlier than Fortnite Battle Royale was launched in September, which in flip shot to fame.

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While Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has acknowledged that he didn’t invent the battle royale style, he has beforehand addressed the difficulty of PUBG clones. In a press launch issued in September, Chang Han Kim, vice chairman of PUBG writer Bluehole, mentioned that the corporate was fearful that Fortnite was copying PUBG, stating that Bluehole was “concerned that Fortnite may be replicating the experience for which PUBG is known.”