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Various crossover games bring in characters, settings and other elements from other video games commonly outside of the publisher's IP realm, such as in the case of the Super Smash Bros. series. This type of licensing tends to pose an issue for the retention and preservation of video games particular on digital download services.
The earliest video game case law had protected the designs in Galaxian and Pac-Man. But later cases such as Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. found that it is permissible to make a video game clone with similar ideas and principles as another game, since copyright does not protect an idea, only the specific expression of that idea. A trial ...
Video games in the form of computer programs embodied in physical or downloaded formats that have been lawfully acquired as complete games, that do not require access to an external computer server for gameplay, and that are no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace, solely for the purpose of preservation of the game in a ...
The source code has also been released; the game is still being sold on CD, but the open source version contains the full game content. Boppin' 1994 2005 [29] Puzzle Amiga, DOS Apogee Software: Castle Infinity: 1996 2000 MMOG: Windows: Starwave: Castle of the Winds: 1989 1998 [30] Role-playing video game: Windows 3.x: Epic MegaGames: Caves of ...
The principle that a video game is copyrightable as an audiovisual work was affirmed in Atari v. Amusement World and Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc. , and followed parallel developments for computer software in Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp .
Established the Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test, which lays out the steps to follow when extricating copyrightable expression from uncopyrightable elements of the same work. Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. 780 F. Supp. 1283: 9th Cir. 1992 Consumers may modify purchased computer games for their own use. Rogers v. Koons
And in early 1993, he was famous enough -- and uncontroversial enough -- to win last-minute, no-questions-asked admittance to the STI, a top-secret development facility for Sega's newest video games. Sega, then the leading video game manufacturer in the U.S. in Europe -- and planning, according to a Wired article that year, to "take over the ...
The set of operations available through the interface is not copyrightable in the United States under Lotus v. Borland , but it can be protected with a utility patent . The law is unclear as to whether transient copies – such as those cached when transmitting digital content, or temporary copies in a computer's RAM – are “fixed” for the ...