Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says

• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn, remember when Sega lost the sonic IP to all the fan games?

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The actually law DEMANDS you defend your IP or you effectively lose it

  Portal64 builds the ROM locally. A legal copy of Portal for PC is required to extract and convert the assets. Websites distributing the finished ROM are liable for copyright violation against Valve but Valve isn’t liable for anything regarding that fan project by Nintendo.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You know that’s not his lawyers view projects in production

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You know that’s not his lawyers view projects in development

      You know that Nintendo’s lawyers did not even raise a finger, right?

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When did I say Nintendo

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• vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep.

  After a tiny bit more research, it looks like for the Portal Demake, Valve did not even actually issue a Cease and Desist, they actually just heavily recommended the project be cancelled /out of fear of the devs being fucked by the far, far more absurdly litigious Nintendo/.

  While I think Nintendo’s actually legal argument in that, which would basically be that a whole art style from the lower res and lower poly graphics constitutes essentially their brand … I think this is bullshit and legally dubious, but of course Nintendo has faaaar more money to throw at lawyers than some random indie dev, so theyd likely have their lives ruined one way of another.

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