| ▲ | designerarvid 5 hours ago |
| Reproducing someone’s intellectual property and publishing it is exactly what constitutes a copyright violation. You can retype someone’s book with your keyboard, it’s still not yours. |
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| ▲ | Sharlin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Reproducing the surface behavior of a program, no matter how faithfully, is not in itself copyright violation if it's a cleanroom implementation. But int this case it's not to write the new one, the developers studied (and manually translated to C++) the original code, not just the program's behavior. So this is more of a case of a derived work, like a translation of a novel. |
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| ▲ | anthk 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Learn something new, dear GenZers: https://osgameclones.com/ Maybe you all realize how much brainwashed from corporations yall actually are. |
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| ▲ | designerarvid 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | GenZ? | |
| ▲ | iso1631 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Look and Feel in computers and how it interacts with copyright is hardly something new https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v03/03HarvJL... | | |
| ▲ | anthk 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | And Sony vs Bleem (or the IBM BIOS reimplementation) already set a precedent so that doesn't really matter anymore. Look at Wine. Or Exegutor. Or DOSBox. All of them totally legal reimplementing either prior look and feel and functionality. | | |
| ▲ | iso1631 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > The code of computer programs are excluded from design protection, but visual aspects of software are very commonly protectable as long as they are ‘new’ (i.e. not a direct copy of anything that has come before) and possess ‘individual character’ (i.e. that the design produces a different ‘overall impression’ than anything that has come before) I'm no expect, but Chris Sawyer style games certainly provided a unique overall impression to me. Whether it needs to be a registered design or not I couldn't say, but it's not going to be cheap to find out. More recent battles have relied on Trademark and Patent law rather than Copyright, but "Look and Feel" is still a legal grey area |
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| ▲ | orphea 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Reproducing is absolutely not a copyright violation. Otherwise emulators would have no legal option to exist. |
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