Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 months agoWhat if the health values are human creations like special symbols or works of creative art?
Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 months agoWhat if the health values are human creations like special symbols or works of creative art?
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 months ago
The symbols would be copyrighted, but the actual behind-the-scenes value (i.e. 20/100, 62.5/1200, etc) isn’t. That’s what they’re referring to.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I mean what if you didn’t use 20/100 for the value, you used a symbol (in the code as the value). Would it still apply?
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 months ago
…yes? Changing the language or the way it’s presented doesn’t change the math behind the scenes. That’s not how computers work.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’m not explaining it properly. Imagine instead of 100 hp, there is apple bananas. That isn’t really a mathematic representation in the same way that the cheat code can change. It would be a copyrighted work of art. It wouldn’t be trivial to build an hp system to do this (in fact it would be a large undertaking), but I am not asking about practicality, just what the law would find.