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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.
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
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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]
A statement that you have identified material on a service that infringes your copyright (or infringes the copyright of a third party on whose behalf you are entitled to act); A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, which should include the type of work (such as a book or a sound recording) and any relevant ...
The photocopying of video game manuals was an infringement of copyright, but the rental of video games was completely legal. Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. is a 1989 legal case related to the copyright of video games , where Blockbuster agreed to stop photocopying game instruction manuals owned by Nintendo .
Video game piracy is the unauthorized copying and distributing of video game software, and is a form of copyright infringement. It is often cited as a major problem that video game publishers face when distributing their products, due to the ease of being able to distribute games for free, via torrenting or websites offering direct download ...
Screen Rant writes that the case "set a major precedent for copyright cases within video games as a whole", [25] while 1up.com highlighted the case for its importance in video game law, noting that the high quality of the game had no impact on the legal question of copyright infringement. [26]