(Photo : Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images) GERMANY - AUGUST 17: Visitors stands in front of the Call of Duty stand at the Gamescom 2016 gaming trade fair during the media day on August 17, 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Gamescom is the world s largest digital gaming trade fair and will be open to the public. Call of Duty panel during E3 2019 at the Novo Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
However, Activision didn t confirm who will be the one to develop it. According to ScreenRant s latest report, Sledgehammer was previously tasked to release a Call of Duty in 2020. However, since it had some issues with Raven Software, which it had partnered to develop the game, the project underwent major changes.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is back in the news this week and unfortunately for Activision, it isn’t for good reasons. The publisher has found itself in the middle of a copyright infringement lawsuit, claiming that the game ripped off a pre-existing character.
Clayton Huagen, a videographer and photographer alleges that Modern Warfare character ‘Mara’ is based on a character called ‘Cade Janus’ from November Renaissance. Huagen created the character back in 2017 while working towards creating a feature film starring her.
During this time, Huagen hired someone to model the character and created a portfolio of photographs featuring her with various military gear. The lawsuit claims that Activision/Infinity Ward copied these photos without permission and used them in development documents for Black Ops 4. Then, when it came time for Modern Warfare, the photos were copied again to create ‘Mara’, an in-game character.
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Activision and Infinity Ward and have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. According to plaintiff Clayton Haugen, the companies made a direct copy of his character Cade Janus , hiring the same people who helped him create her before renaming and placing Mara in the game as their own work.
Since 2003, publisher Activision has teamed up with various developers to release Call of Duty games on various platforms. Its longest standing partner is California-based Infinity Ward, whose team was responsible for the 2019 release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Available for Windows, PS4 and Xbox One, Modern Warfare received plenty of praise but not everyone is happy with the end result.