Warner Bros. has come under fire for reportedly plagiarizing audio and ideas from a 2008 short film, Charlie the Unicorn.
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The audio was used in a trailer for a new Reindog skin in MultiVersus, named the 'Unicorndog Variant.' This comes just a month after Warner Bros. admitted the game had "substantially" underperformed.
In a now-removed tweet, the official MultiVersus account said, "We're going to Candy Kingdom to get the new Unicorndog Variant, Charlie!" The tweet was accompanied by a video with three Unicorn Reindogs and audio that sounds suspiciously like that in the Charlie the Unicorn short film.
Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele, aka FilmCow, quoted the original tweet saying: "MultiVersus is a game by Warner Bros, a company with an annual revenue of around 40 billion dollars. Here they are using my work, without permission, to advertise their game."
They followed up on their original tweet, saying, "We all play fast and loose with intellectual property law here, but when you’re a billion-dollar company advertising your Intellectual Property Horde game, you should at the very least get permission to use other people’s...