Sony has pulled a music video featuring PlayStation 4 titles after claims of plagiarism.

The video, which has since been pulled by Sony, was released by Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia.

The promotional video featured Tanaka, who has worked with Boku no Lyric no Boyomi, according to Gematsu.

While the video featured clips from 16 game titles, it’s the animation in between the clips which is being called into question. Animation website Catsuka created a video showing comparisons between animations and those shown in the PS4 video.

Latest Sony PS4 Lineup Music Video is a rip of many animations from all around the world ......
(Steven Universe, FLCL, Gobelins, Souviens Ten-Zan ...).
The video is now offline : https://t.co/LPWyFWzEEw
But you can still find it online : https://t.co/KfS79oRrs5 pic.twitter.com/6Q0hrFK2AT

— Catsuka (@catsuka) December 4, 2019

As reported by DualShockers, the animation director behind the video is Kevin Bao – per an interview with Akiba Souten. Bao has also been accused of plagiarising a “Live with YouTube Gaming” animation.

Sony has yet to comment on the accusations. It is unknown at present whether the animations were made in-house or through freelancers, which many believe to be the case.

You can see the original video below courtesy of W Gaming.



Posted: Dec 06, 2019 11:16 am
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: https://www.vg247.com/2019/12/04/sony-accused-of-plagiarizing-animations-for-ps4-line-up-video/