Bungie’s management says they didn’t know that it occurred, and I imagine them. In a giant studio like Bungie, there are actually lots of of builders creating and modifying belongings dozens of occasions every day. There is no such thing as a approach for any human to audit each single asset checked in to the depot in opposition to the sum whole of the web, particularly after we’re attempting to maintain issues below wraps earlier than the sport is able to be introduced. Sport devs don’t have the sort of software program instruments that Youtube does to police for dangerous actors importing copyrighted materials.
When particular person actors do that, they don’t inform their bosses that they’ve stolen different peoples’ work. They cover it and cross the work off as their very own and hope no one notices. This habits is rarely condoned or inspired by management as a result of it causes nothing however a giant mess for everybody concerned if it will get came upon. The larger the staff, the extra probably any person will discover this sort of factor. Nevertheless, it isn’t 100% for a similar cause that gamers discover bugs that QA missed – when a recreation goes public, there’s usually a number of orders of magnitude extra eyes taking a look at it than internally. Extra eyeballs trying imply that it’s extra probably that stolen belongings get came upon.
After such issues occur, the studio’s authorized illustration invariably does attain out to the legally injured get together (on this case Antireal) with a settlement supply. Such affords normally embody a non-disclosure settlement and a non-disparagement clause in change for fee and both a license for the artwork or removing of all offending belongings from the sport. That’s probably what’s going on proper now between Bungie and Antireal.
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