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順便練習這不成材的翻譯^^

消息來源:http://ppt.cc/SuzY

EA says the infringement is so severe, it's hard to distinguish Maxis' The
Sims Social and Zynga's The Ville with an untrained eye.

EA表示這個違法真的太嚴重了，沒有受訓過的眼根本無法分辨Maxis的The Sim Social
和Zynga的The Ville

Electronic Arts announced on Friday that it has filed a a lawsuit on behalf
of its Maxis Label against Zynga Inc. for infringing EA’s copyrights to its
Facebook game, The Sims Social.

EA在禮拜五宣布已經準備好一些對於Zynga訴訟的相關資料，主要是針對Zynga對於
The Sims Social的著作權侵權問題

According to the publisher, the complaint was filed in the United States
District Court for the Northern District of California on August 3, 2012. It
alleges that Zynga has willfully and intentionally “copied and
misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements of The Sims
Social in a violation of U.S. copyright laws" with the launch of The Ville on
Facebook.

根據公司發言人，這起訴訟在2012/08/03在北加州的美國地方法院提出，宣稱Zynga蓄意
抄襲並且佔用那些在The Sims Social原創以及獨特的元件，違反美國著作權法，並且在
Facebook上開始營運The Ville

"The similarities go well beyond any superficial resemblance," said Lucy
Bradshaw, General Manager of EA’s Maxis Label, in a recent blog post. "Zynga
’s design choices, animations, visual arrangements and character motions and
actions have been directly lifted from The Sims Social. The copying was so
comprehensive that the two games are, to an uninitiated observer, largely
indistinguishable. Scores of media and bloggers commented on the blatant
mimicry."

"兩者間的相似不止於表面的相似"Lucy Bradshaw(EA在Maxis的經理特助)在一篇部落格上
說到，"Zynga在創作選擇、動畫、視覺效果、腳色移動和動作都是直接從The Sims
Social拿出來的。這個抄襲太過廣泛導致沒有特別研究過的觀察者根本無法分辨。媒體和
部落客都評論其明顯的相似。"

The Sims Social launched in August 2011, bringing the distinctive Sims
universe to Facebook. EA claims that it became an instant hit, rapidly
gaining "tens of millions" of users. The Sims Social currently maintains a
user base of several million active players on the popular social network
alone (the iOS and Android apps are separate). Meanwhile, Zynga's The Ville
was introduced in June 2012, and Bradshaw claims the infringement of The Sims
Social was "unmistakable to those of us at Maxis" as well as to players and
the industry at large.

在2011年8月開始營運的The Sims Social，把獨特的Sims帶到全球，EA聲稱一推出就成為
轟動，並有大量的使用者加入。The Sims Social現在維持幾百萬的使用者(仍在使用的)
並且在各平台上都有。同時間，Zynga的The Ville在2012年6月開始營運，Bradshaw聲稱
其對於The Sims Social的違法行為是"對於Maxis是不可能會弄錯的"(翻譯不太對請見諒)
，對於這些玩家亦然。

"This is a case of principle," Bradshaw said. "Maxis isn’t the first studio
to claim that Zynga copied its creative product. But we are the studio that
has the financial and corporate resources to stand up and do something about
it. Infringing a developer’s copyright is not an acceptable practice in
game development. By calling Zynga out on this illegal practice, we hope to
have a secondary effect of protecting the rights of other creative studios
who don’t have the resources to protect themselves."

"這是一個原則的問題"Bradshaw說"Maxis不是第一個宣稱Zynga抄襲的公司，但我們是一
個擁有財力和有合作的資源(應該是EA的法律部門之類的)可以讓我們可以站起來並且做
出一些事情，違反製作者的著作權在遊戲界是不可被接受的型為，藉由叫Zynga停止這類
違法行為，我們希望可以有更多的效應幫助保護其他沒有資源可以自保的創作工作室。"

"Today, we hope to be taking a stand that helps the industry protect the
value of original creative works and those that work tirelessly to create
them," she added.

"今日，我們希望可以藉由做出這些動作來保護這些創作的價值和那些日以夜繼創作的人"
她說到。

As of this writing, Zynga has not responded to the lawsuit.

就在筆者寫作此文的時候，Zynga對於這起法律訴訟並無回應。

心得:

要戰了嗎?

雖然EA有時也有點____

不過Zynga最近某些遊戲也實在營運的讓我有點OOXX

且看龍頭對決是如何?

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