Bungie is being sued for copyright infringement by a writer who claims the studio copied his “original work about a unique and captivating fantasy world” for Destiny 2’s Red War campaign.
The lawsuit (as spotted by TheGamePost) was filed with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by author Kelsey Martineau. He accuses Bungie of “deliberately copying and appropriating [his] copyrighted content”, arguing aspects of Destiny 2’s Red War storyline – its antagonistic Red Legion army, in particular – were taken “directly” from an original work published via WordPress years before the (now vaulted) Destiny 2 campaign’s 2017 release.
According to the lawsuit, Martineau, using the pen name Caspar Cole, authored his “original work about a unique and captivating fantasy world” in 2013 and 2014, telling the story of a “powerful military force… embroiled in an unending cycle of warfare” known as the Red Legion.
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