Comment on The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN

• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pokemon is made on the unity engine, so one of the scariest legal teams in the world. Nintendo doesn’t like it when people take a little whipped cream off of the mcflurry, and this threatens to take the whole McFlurry.

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  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh that’s gonna be a treat to watch, assholes punching each other

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• iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What exact grounds would a business sue for?

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Retroactive change of terms for already released unchanged products? I don’t know the legal details but it seems pretty strange that they can just say they will charge over something for products that were finished and released under different terms before all this.

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    • tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s nothing implicit about “opening the project in unity” that needs to be a trigger for terms to change.

      If you make and distribute a game made in unity, then you are distributing some unity IP. You would need the license holder to grant you permission to do that. The terms you agree to with unity are what grant you the right to distribute this.

      So this has very little to do with “have you opened the editor lately”, and is more similar to when e.g. Dead By Daylight has to stop selling a dlc character because they don’t renew an agreement with the rights holders.

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s because digital media licensing is a whole circus. We aren’t talking of using someone else’s likeness or characters. What if Microsoft Office decides that they will charge retroactively about every file previously created with those tools regardless of what compensation they may already have agreed to and received? Does that seem even remotely reasonable in the least?

        Do publishing houses need to pay leases to printer manufacturers per page printed on top of their own material costs? Do they need to pay every time a new reader opens the book the first time?

        It’s not reasonable to just go “the company said so, therefore this is how it has to work”, that’s just being a chump.

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