Nintendo fuming
Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement
Submitted 2 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Their lawyers are vocally rubbing their hands rn
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m now picturing lawyers aggressively humming at their hands.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I used to use Game Genie to make replays of already-completed games more difficult. By getting more entertainment from what I already had instead of buying new games, I was obviously stealing from the game publishers.
cmhe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When the current copyright comes from books, wouldn’t plugins or transient changes/cheats be like taking side notes with a pencil on their individual copy?
Are side notes copyright infringements?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is an interesting distinction, the code to generate your health total is copyright but the actual health value you modify with cheats is not.
otp@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The music on the CD is copyrighted, but you’re free to use the Bass Boost feature or whatever on the thing you’re playing the music from
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah honestly this makes a lot of sense to me.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 months ago
I mean, this is a pretty normal distinction afaik (human vs non-human creations; afaik non-human creations almost always have any human copyright claims voided when challenged).
Imo what makes this special is how precise he’s being. If I understand correctly, he’s basically saying that the code for the health bar is a human creation and protected by copyright, but while the code to change the health value might be human-made, the actual values are machine-made and not under copyright (there’s probably a lot of nuance I’m skipping over, but my understanding is that’s the gist of it).
cmhe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, I think both are human creation, you are using the machine and the game to create something new. In that sense, a save game file could also be under the players copyright.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
What if the health values are human creations like special symbols or works of creative art?