
Last year, I found myself in a peculiar situation when a sci-fi author, Matthew Kelsey Martineau, accused Bungie of plagiarizing one of his works – specifically, the enemy faction known as the Red Legion from his WordPress posts. Now, I, as a gamer, was skeptical about these allegations. However, when Bungie’s legal team needed to defend their case, they had to resort to something quite unusual – citing fan-made YouTube compilations of cutscenes and gameplay from the original Destiny 2 campaign, which is no longer accessible.
Typically, a company could easily submit a copy of the game as evidence, but given the circumstances, that wasn’t an option here. It was a fascinating twist in this intellectual property dispute.