Cooking Mama – Juridische onrust na ongeoorloofde vrijgave

Cooking Mama – Juridische onrust na ongeoorloofde vrijgave

Office Create , de eigenaren van de Cooking Mama IP, hebben een belangrijke aankondiging vrijgegeven met betrekking tot Cooking Mama: Cookstar.

Volgens het bedrijf was Cooking Mama: Cookstar een “ongeautoriseerde release” van Planet Entertainment . Blijkbaar had Office Create veel problemen met de game die ze voor de lancering wilden corrigeren, maar Planet Entertainment koos ervoor om de game toch uit te brengen zonder een van de problemen op te lossen.

Als gevolg hiervan evalueert Office Create nu alle juridische stappen tegen Planet “om” hun klanten, intellectuele eigendomsrechten en de Cooking Mama-serie te beschermen “.

Op dit moment is het niet precies bekend met welke gevolgen Planet te maken kan krijgen als gevolg van hun acties.

Office Create Cooking Mama verklaring

We would like to thank our fans and customers for their support over the years for the Cooking Mama franchise. As many of you know, Planet Entertainment LLC (Headquarters: Connecticut, USA; “Planet”) recently released “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” for sale in the U.S., Europe and Australia. This was an unauthorized release in breach of Planet’s contract with Office Create.

In August 2018, Office Create licensed Planet to develop the Cooking Mama: Cookstar game for Nintendo Switch™. Unfortunately, the quality of the game builds failed to meet the standards that our customers expect and deserve. Office Create rejected a wide range of deficiencies affecting the overall feel, quality and content of the game. Yet, despite being contractually obligated to correct the identified deficiencies and resubmit the corrected game for Office Create’s approval, Planet proceeded to release Cooking Mama: Cookstar without addressing all of the rejections and without Office Create’s approval.

We have also learned that Planet and/or its European distributor has been promoting an upcoming European release of a PS4™ version of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. Office Create has not licensed Planet (or any other entity) to create any Cooking Mama games for PS4™. Office Create itself has not been involved in the development of any PS4™ Cooking Mama game.

On March 30, 2020 Office Create notified Planet of its immediate termination of the license due to Planet’s intentional material breach of the license contract. Despite such notice, Planet continues to advertise and sell the unauthorized version of Cooking Mama: Cookstar on its website in willful violation of Office Create’s rights. To date, Planet has not confirmed the status of the unauthorized PS4™ version.

Office Create is evaluating all legal action against Planet to protect our customers, intellectual property rights and the Cooking Mama series. In the meantime, we thank our customers and loyal Cooking Mama fans for their continued support and sincerely regret any confusion and disappointment that has been caused by Planet’s conduct.