• Rhodamine@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    You can’t copyright game mechanics. So, if you replace the sprites with legally distinct ones and write the code yourself, there are no laws broken.

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      1 year ago

      Actually, you can, in counted cases Copyright Game Mechanics, see: Shadows of Mordor: Nemesis System and Bandai Namco “Auxiliary Games” (Mini-Games during Loading Screen)

      Creative Outlets as well as Game Developers could be sued if they made from scratch something remarkably similar to those Game Mechanics

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        1 year ago

        Those are patents. Patents are not copyright, although they both fall under the general umbrella of intellectual property protection.

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          Not even journalists understand IP law these days. They’re like “the patent was filed so that competing products could be DMCA’d” 🤦‍♂️