{"id":32153,"date":"2022-08-01T13:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/call-of-duty-warzone-plagiarism-accusations-surface-around-new-dog-operator-design\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:58:41","slug":"call-of-duty-warzone-plagiarism-accusations-surface-around-new-dog-operator-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/call-of-duty-warzone-plagiarism-accusations-surface-around-new-dog-operator-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty Warzone: Plagiarism Accusations Surface Around New Dog Operator Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A popular new furry Operator in Call of Duty Warzone has become the subject of plagiarism claims.<\/p>\n<p>The new playable character, due to launch alongside the upcoming Terminator bundle, allows you to buy and play as a \u201cLoyal Samoyed\u201d \u2013 a soldier with the head of a very, very good boy.  You can see the design below in a promotional image from developer Raven Software.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"article-image-container\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-1740678189 article-image-caption\">The Loyal Samoyed skin from Call of Duty Warzone and Vanguard.  (Image credit: Raven Software)<\/p>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p>However, concept artist Sail Lin claims that the design has been plagiarized from a piece they created over two years ago:<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"object-feedback\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI am the original artist that the upcoming CoD Vanguard Samoyed skin was plagiarized from,\u201d they said on Twitter (below).  \u201cEven though I am also a CoD player, I am very disappointed to see my work plagiarized by a big company like Activision in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have reached out to Activision for an explanation and\/or compensation, and hopefully the situation will be settled soon,\u201d they explained.  \u201cAs an individual artist, I can only do so much, and I have to speak out about this to stop things like this happening again in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have to explain this matter, COD Vanguard Samoye skin plagiarism.https:\/\/t.co\/ltHTSNhEtf <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CallofDutyVanguard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#CallofDutyVanguard<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#COD<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vanguard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#vanguard<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Activision?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@Activision<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OD2M4WNUms\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OD2M4WNUms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 saillin (@saillin5) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saillin5\/status\/1553053951209025536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The artist uploaded their original design (called &#8216;Samoye Medical&#8217;) to online portfolio website ArtStation in December 2019, so there&#8217;s little arguing that their work preceded the upcoming CoD skin.<\/p>\n<p>Even more interestingly, following these accusations, Raven Software has since removed mention of the \u201cLoyal Samoyed\u201d skin from its website.  As noted by Polygon, a blog post announcing the skin has since been updated to remove images and mentions of the design.  Additionally, tweets promoting the skin <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RavenSoftware\/status\/1552293361633075203\" target=\"_blank\">have also been removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve contacted Activision Blizzard for comment.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 slideshow-preview\">\n<p>Call of Duty Warzone Season 6 Images<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-862123036 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3600606818 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3600606818 aspect-ratio-child\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Call of Duty Warzone Season 6 Images\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2020\/09\/29\/ghost-newsniper-01-1601377499443.png?ssl=1\" class=\"jsx-2920405963 progressive-image image jsx-294430442 rounded expand loading\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p>Sail Lin is a concept artist from Shenzhen, China, whose portfolio includes a whole catalog of gun designs alongside a range of cute puppers on combat gear.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Lin will be contacted by Activision or Raven Software remains to be seen.  But it looks as though this take on man&#8217;s best friend won&#8217;t be heading to the Warzone \u2013 at least, not for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Activision Blizzard has previously been sued for an Operator&#8217;s likeness, after photographer Clayton Haugen alleged that the game&#8217;s Mara character was based on images he&#8217;d taken of a cosplayer.  That case was settled later.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN.  You can follow him on <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanLeston\" target=\"_blank\"><em>twitter<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular new furry Operator in Call of Duty Warzone has become the subject of plagiarism claims. The new playable character, due to launch alongside the upcoming Terminator bundle, allows you to buy and play as a \u201cLoyal Samoyed\u201d \u2013 a soldier with the head of a very, very good boy. You can see the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/call-of-duty-warzone-plagiarism-accusations-surface-around-new-dog-operator-design\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call of Duty Warzone: Plagiarism Accusations Surface Around New Dog Operator Design<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30170,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/call-of-duty-warzone-gets-samoyed-dog-skin-artist-says-its-plagiarized\/","url_meta":{"origin":32153,"position":0},"title":"Call of Duty: Warzone gets Samoyed dog skin, artist says it&#8217;s plagiarized","date":"July 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Activision's latest update for Call of Duty: Warzone will bring the Terminator \u2014 both Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 and Robert Patrick's T-1000 \u2014 to the battle royale-style shooter. 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