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Rich Stanton

Bungie and sci-fi author settle lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of his old Wordpress stories for Destiny 2's launch campaign

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In October 2024 a science fiction author, Matthew Kelsey Martineau, launched a lawsuit against Bungie focused on a Destiny 2 enemy faction: Martineau alleged that the game's Red Legion faction, the Red War storyline, and various other narrative beats were based on his stories from 2013-14, which had been published on a Wordpress blog.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about it, though, was that Bungie had since "vaulted" all of the Red Legion content in question, which is its term for removing stuff from the game. So after an attempt to have the case dismissed fell flat, Bungie's lawyers had to rely on submitting old fan videos from YouTube and Wiki links to make its case.

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