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Xio Interactive, Inc., 863 F.Supp.2d 394 (D.N.J. 2012), was a 2012 American legal case related to copyright of video games, confirming that a game's look and feel can be protected under copyright law. Tetris Holding is a company that holds the copyright to the original Tetris game from 1985
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 copyright cases of Midway, Galoob, and Micro Star continue to guide the law around game modifications, that a permanent modification is likely copyright infringement, where an impermanent modification is not. [27] The Galoob precedent has led courts to permit the use of third-party software to manipulate and cheat at other games. [30]
Data East that suggests a more skeptical view towards copyright protection for video games. [ 12 ] John Quagliariello argues that this was one of several cases that made it near impossible for a video game copyright holder to win a lawsuit against a potential infringer, especially considering the cost of a lawsuit versus the risk of an ...
The first video game cases raised the issue of whether a video game's graphics counted as a fixed work, an essential first step for copyright protection. Courts consistently ruled for the plaintiffs, that copyright indeed protected games as audiovisual works, more than protecting the underlying code. [ 2 ]
The University of Pennsylvania Law Review has noted the ruling as one of the earliest and leading cases where the court found copyright infringement in a video game. [7] Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review also cites it as the first federal appellate court to conclude that a video game qualified for copyright as an audiovisual work. [13]
Miley Cyrus is facing a potential wrecking ball: a copyright infringement lawsuit regarding her Grammy-winning song, "Flowers.". Cyrus, 31, was sued in U.S. District Court for the Central District ...
Playing a radio broadcast of a copyrighted work at a business was not copyright infringement Radio reception does not constitute a "performance" of copyrighted material. Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop: 533 F.2d 87: 2d Cir. 1976 The essence of infringement lies in taking not a general theme but its particular expression Gilliam v.