Artist claims Naughty Dog stole his work

While The Last of Us developers Naughty Dog have already received a jab from Ellen Page, an artist has now claimed that the studio stole his work for the apocalyptic survival adventure.

Cameron Booth, who works with subway maps, is the distressed artist, and says that Naughty Dog has been “naughty”. Genius.

“My Boston T map used in The Last of Us PS3 game without permission or payment,” said Booth on his Tumblr blog. “Basically, I’m f****** furious.”

“For a software developer — especially a big developer working on a blockbuster title like this — to casually appropriate someone else’s work and incorporate it into their game without any discussion with the owner of that work is completely unacceptable. (Not to mention hugely ironic, as the software industry is always complaining about piracy of their work.)”

“Naughty Dog seems to have known that they couldn’t use the official map without paying a hefty license fee, so it looks like they just went on the internet and found another one. Cos, you know, images on the internet are free for anyone to use, right? Not,” he later continued.

After the post went up and got some momentum around the web, Naughty Dog reportedly contacted Booth, and the two parties have seemed to have come to an agreement.

“I’ve just spoken with Naughty Dog over the phone in a very constructive conversation,” he said. “Can’t say more at the moment, but it seems as if matters will be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction shortly. I can say that they do acknowledge their error in using my map and were very apologetic for it. I likewise apologised for my initial vitriolic post. A lot of mutual respect for each other’s creative work.”