"Tencent rejected allegations of copyright infringement and called the alleged similarities between Light of Motiram and Horizon games "time-honored tropes" seen in other titles released before and after Horizon Zero Dawn. "At bottom, Sony's effort is not aimed at fighting off piracy, plagiarism, or any genuine threat to intellectual property," Tencent said in its filing. "It is an improper attempt to fence off a well-trodden corner of popular culture and declare it Sony's exclusive domain.""
""Sony's Complaint tellingly ignores these facts. Instead, it tries to transform ubiquitous genre ingredients into proprietary assets," Tencent claimed in its response. "By suing over an unreleased project that merely employs the same time-honored tropes embraced by scores of other games released both before and after Horizon-like Enslaved, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Far Cry: Primal, Far Cry: New Dawn, Outer Wilds, Biomutant, and many more-Sony seeks an impermissible monopoly on genre convent"
Tencent denied Sony's copyright infringement claims and urged a judge to dismiss the lawsuit accusing Light of Motiram of copying Horizon. Tencent characterized alleged similarities as common, time-honored open-world and survival tropes present in many prior and subsequent games. Tencent accused Sony of attempting to monopolize established genre conventions rather than protecting genuine intellectual property. Tencent noted several earlier titles with similar features, cited Guerrilla Games' positions as contradicting Sony's uniqueness claim, and called Sony's effort to claim exclusive rights over ubiquitous genre ingredients improper and overreaching.
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