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anthk 4 hours ago

Learn something new, dear GenZers:

https://osgameclones.com/

Maybe you all realize how much brainwashed from corporations yall actually are.

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