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Developers are going to find it increasingly more difficult to protect their game mechanics under copyright law following a ruling from a Texas court judge. The ruling stems from a case in which DaVinci Editrice sued Ziko Games over a game with mechanics that were identical to its own,GamaSutrareports. DaVinci’s …
Read More »Texas court rules that copyright doesn’t protect game mechanics
'In no case does copyright protection extend to an idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery'
Read More »YouTube reworks Content ID to allow monetisation during disputes
‘When both a creator and someone making a claim choose to monetise a video, we will continue to run ads on that video and hold the resulting revenue separately. Once the Content ID claim or dispute is resolved, we'll pay out that revenue to the appropriate party’
Read More »Quantum Break allows users to disable copyrighted music for streaming
As Kotaku puts it, what a perfect sign of the times. Barely a day passes without a YouTuber taking to social media to lament a copyright claiming robbing them of revenues from their videos. The phenomenon has led to an interesting option buried away in the menus for Microsoft’s recently …
Read More »EA copyright claim forces fan-made Trump Mass Effect spoof offline
A pro-Donald Trump campaign video modelled around the trailer for EA’s Mass Effect 2 has been forced offline by the publisher. Game Informer reports that Trump retweeted what appeared to be a fan-made video that used the music and Martin Sheen voice-over from the Mass Effect short to promote the …
Read More »Remedy makes Quantum Break’s licensed music optional for YouTubers
Sites such as Twitch and YouTube have been criticised for blocking videos containing copyrighted songs
Read More »Pixels film copyright claims hit indie videos
An anti-piracy group acting on behalf of Columbia Pictures has hit video hosting site Vimeo with a slew of copyright takedowns to prevent piracy of its Adam Sandler summer film, Pixels. Entura International sent the video hosting site a number of DCMA take-down notices on videos using the below criteria: …
Read More »HBO accuses Periscope of ‘mass copyright infringement’
Twitter-owned live video streaming app Periscope has been targeted by HBO following the weekend’s premiere of Game of Thrones series five. Periscope allows users to stream directly form their smartphone camera, and many users used it as an opportunity to stream the episode as it was broadcast. The Hollywood Reporter …
Read More »Nintendo issues takedown demand for student Super Mario 64 HD project
A recreation of the first level from Super Mario 64 made with the Unity engine must be removed from the internet, Nintendo has said. Super Mario 64 HD was created by Roystan Ross as an attempt to learn Unity. It uses the level structure of 64 and character models from …
Read More »Shanghai developer suing Heroes Charge
Lilith Games claims mobile smash hit is a clone of its own title Soul Clash
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