Vietnamese Outsourcing Firm Sues Gameloft over Asphalt Assets
Outsourcing company Glass Egg Digital Media from Vietnam is in litigation with mobile publisher Gameloft. Glass Egg accuses the French company of copyright infringement, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets.
The situation is quite confusing. Gameloft has reportedly commissioned the creation of 3D models of cars for the Asphalt racing series to the outsourcing studios Alive Interactive and Hung Thinh 3D.
Gameloft contractors, in turn, turned to some Glass Egg employees who completed the work without notifying their employer about taking a third-party order.
At the same time, work on assets for Gameloft was carried out on Glass Egg equipment.
It is not specified what responsibility these employees bore to the studio.
Glass Egg went to court in California back in July last year. The defendants in the lawsuits are Vivendi, the company that owns Gameloft, Gameloft itself and its subsidiaries Gameloft USA and Gameloft Iberica.
The proceedings are always delayed due to the fact that the court has to respond to mutual claims of the parties.
The last stage in the case was Gameloft’s request to combine the claims into one production, an objection to this request from Glass Egg and a counter objection from Gameloft. The court rejected all three requests.
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