First, we’re talking cross duristicion, since I was using the EU ruling above.
Second, I’m wondering if what that US page means is that a non-original work doesn’t get copyright protections, or that non-original work is itself in breach of copyright? Maybe I should go digging to find out.
I agree deliberately designed digital worlds are artistic creations. Just that randomly generated ones are not.
You’re probably right that legal examples on both sure probably already exist.
Yes, and you have copyright on the photo - not the layout of the plants and trees in it, nor even the angle of the subject. Someone else can go with a camera and take their own photo without touching your copyright.
Much like with digital files, the copyright is as it is a non-random transformation of a mostly replicable media product. People don’t have a copyright on numbers, even if their 5000 trillion billion digit number happened to turn into a 1960s Disney short if you run it through the right compiler.
A Minecraft World isn’t, not even if you draw on it with exploration as the world was generated from a random seed.
It is random, and unpredictable. You could maybe make an argument from reusing the random seed… But since the ability to turn the seed into the map isn’t something a human can replicate without Minecraft I think it also fails the test for copyright.
Talky Toaster really didn’t cope well with everyone being dead.
Though wasn’t it the antagonist in one of the book versions?
Lot of people more annoyed that language is a living, changing thing than the predatory nature of in game purchases (but we all knew the latter already, so this isn’t gonna be news to us).
Please be performance art…
Edit: I am the problem. Mindless quotes to show being in the know really don’t add anything. I shall do better.
Consider it dun!
Comin’ ovuh!
You gotta start them on the road to “Capitalism bad” somewhere.
I’m fairly sure that at this point pirating has been shown to lead to increased sales, even of small scale productions.
Also, no one said that people can’t keep the rights for a while, just that if you don’t let people access those things you don’t get to prosecute them for making the art available.
FFX-2 has a great battle system, and job based FFs were always the most rewarding to play.
XIII was the point I just decided I didn’t care any more. (Also, there’s no way that XIII gets to count as retro already, right?)
An actual rush is a very all in strategy, just don’t fall too far behind on making combat units and you’ll be fine.
Its as true in AoE2 as it is in Starcraft(pick one).
Great fun games, tickle me in a different way to slower, absolutely no rush, 4X games.
Still some of the best party shooters out there. A plethora of game modes, and a co-op story mode as well. The original and FP are great games. 2 took itself a little too seriously in my opinion (and didn’t have character select lines) for it to match up to quite the same level.
China Mieville and Ursula Le Guin are both up there are authors who have written things that have felt momentous to read.
But I’m not sure either of them could edge out Terry Pratchett as the author whose work I’ve enjoyed going back to time and time again, having read most of Discworld at a more formative age probably helps too.
And in my day we couldn’t just send boomers to bed with a hand wave, we had to sit through the Clintons’ saxophone show first and then we…
You’re wrong, but I’m glad you have had fun and I hope that TESVI isn’t a micro transaction fuelled pile of tripe.
Yup, that’s the one.
Has Bethesda actually released a decent game since Daggerfall?
Thanks for the explanatory text.
“Destroyed”? Could we perhaps use more specific language?
Does this petition mean shut down, or a loss of bug fixing and anti-hacker support, or something else?
You’re welcome, and thank you too.
I agree with all that. The edge cases are tricky and there’s no easy answer.
A painter flicking or splashing paint on a canvas presumably makes something with copyright protection.
Does an accidentally statically impossible basically impossible to tell apart version accidentally made by someone flicking and splashing their own paint infringe it? I’d hope not but can’t really argue for a rule on it that doesn’t involve believing stated goals/mind reading.
Guess not a thing us mortals/non-legal professionals can ever answer.