An Amsterdam hotel is not at all happy with its inclusion in call of Duty and, according to Dutch media, is considering taking legal action against the developer and publisher Activision Blizzard. Although the Conservatorium Hotel appears in the game as “Breenbergh”, it is undeniably the same building.
“We have taken note that the Conservatorium Hotel is undesirably home to the new Call of Duty“said the hotel manager Roy Tomassen to de Volksrant. “More generally, we do not support games that appear to encourage the use of violence. The game in no way reflects our core values and we regret our apparent and unwanted involvement“.
de Volksrant reports that the hotel is still considering what steps to take next. However, it is clear from the words that the hotel has not ruled out legal action.
The hotel appears in both singleplayer and multiplayer modes. A quick glance at the images of the interior of the luxury hotel and the Call of Duty map confirms that the Breenbergh hotel in the game is based on the Royal Conservatorium, a building from the 1800s redesigned in an extremely distinctive style of glass and steel for use. as a five star hotel.
Legal action may appear to many as a trifle, but architecture is subject to copyright under both European and American law. As a five-star luxury hotel, the owners and managers of the Conservatorium may wish to have absolute control over the representation of their business.
In the past, American law has sided with Activision when it comes to representations of the real world – most notably the HMMV used by the US military – but in Europe the laws are far less clear on similar issues. The representation of a hotel as a scenario is more legally questionable than the representation of an iconic military vehicle in a game of this type.
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Source: PCGamer.
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