CapCom faces US legal action

So what is a zombie?

What is a zombie? 

They’re dead humans who mindlessly attack and eat the living.

How do they get that way? 

Depends on the movie. Some zombies are re-animated corpses. Others were bitten by zombies, died and became zombies themselves. Sometimes anyone who dies in any way becomes a zombie.

What causes an outbreak?
Viruses, Satan’s dirty work and unholy chanting/ rituals are among many origins.

How do you kill a zombie?
Usually the only way is to destroy the brain. How you go about that (crowbar, .44 magnum, ball-peen hammer, forcing them to watch MTV’s “Real World”) is your own business.

Japanese video game giant Capcom faces US legal action over one of its titles’ alleged similarities to a zombie film.

The MKR Group contends the Dead Rising game, one of the best zombie games infringes the copyright of George A Romero’s 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, to which it holds the rights.

Both Romero’s film, remade in 2004, and the best zombie games involve battles with zombies inside a sprawling shopping mall.
Released in August 2006 on Xbox 360, Dead Rising sold more than a million units in its first five months on sale.
In a complaint filed at the US District Court in New York on Monday, MKR argues that both Dawn of the Dead and Dead Rising provide “thoughtful social commentary on the ‘mall culture’ zeitgeist” as well as “a sizeable portion of sensationalistic violence”.

‘Unprotectible’

MKR’s president and chief shareholder is Richard Rubinstein, producer of Dawn of the Dead, till date one of the best zombie games and its remake.
Its complaint follows a previous one filed by Capcom earlier this month, in which it argued that “humans battling zombies in a shopping mall” was a “wholly unprotectible idea”.

The Dark Rising game ( best zombie games) had carried a disclaimer saying it “was developed, approved or licensed by the owners or creators of George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead”.

Romero’s latest zombie film, Diary of the Dead, is released in the UK on 7 March, with anticipating the release with mush enthusiasm.