A Japanese indie developer has been blocked from selling his game on Steam for copyright infringement, despite owning the copyright to the IPs Steam believed has been infringed.
I mean the games that Steam says are being infringed were developed by the dev under a different name. So they want proof, that it’s really the same dev, which I think is reasonable.
People are always complaining about fraudulent DMCA claims and how anyone can just say they own the rights to something, but apparently doing the opposite thing also also wrong.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
So, Valve correctly identified some of the assets used here originated with another title and/or artist. And the dev here has (at least so far) failed to prove they own said property…
How is that Valves fault?
If it turns out this Dev doesn’t actually own the rights and Valve had let it go up for sale; people would be pissed both at the infringement and at Valve for allowing it.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 week ago
Folks still care about copyright‽
That aside, folks want Valve to become acopyright enforcer‽
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yes; usually, people care when others blatantly plagiarize their work (particularly for profit), and often they would like distributors to help prevent it where possible/reasonable.
Note: I never said ‘copyright’. I’m just talking about the more general concept of Intellectual Property, not any specific legal framework.
Not sure what your link has to do with this conversation besides just being a separate reason to not like Valve.
I can’t say I’m thrilled they’re exploring AI tools, particularly with ChatGPT; but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t prevent IP infringement within their store…