Lee

The Church of England and Sony Entertainment are at legal odds due to the game Resistance: Fall of Man. According to abc4.com, "The English Church claims this game uses the Manchester Cathedral as a backdrop for a violent battle" (article here).

Spokespeople for the interests of the Church find such a choice in backdrop for the era-driven alien/zombie shooter game extremely disrespectful, and the Church of England is threatening legal action.

Do you believe that The Church of England has any legal grounds for a lawsuit?

Honestly, I don't know exactly what legal vantage point they possibly could be speaking from.

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Joel007

Which one of them was playing this game and noticed it?

Now people won't go into the church for fear of being attacked by space alien zombie corpses.
What about all the old church building that make great sniper outposts in almost any WWII game?

fabian

i think there just being ott to be honest

tater03

I am sorry but I really think that the Church needs to clean up their own house at the moment. They have more important things to worry about than this kind of stuff if you ask me.

parise

If they are actually using an image of the church building without permission, it might be argued that they are in the wrong. I would also like to know what church member found this out.

Lee

That is interesting. I would have to reread the article and do a little more research on which church member found that out. Maybe it was his gamer son.

Does Sony legally need permission to use images of the church in question?

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