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All Your Nintendo Let's Plays Are Belong To Nintendo?  |
| Posted by Greg Lastowka on Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:00 EDT in
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| Does Nintendo have the legal right to monetize Let's Play videos on YouTube? That's a tricky question, and it's not just a question of copyright law's fair use doctrine. |
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Spry Fox Attacks the Clones |
| Posted by Greg Lastowka on Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:21:00 EDT in
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| How should copyright law apply to game design? |
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Greg Lastowka's Comments
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Comment In: All Your Nintendo Let's Plays Are Belong To Nintendo? [Blog - 05/17/2013 - 12:26]
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David, r n r nSo ... David, r n r nSo just to be clear: I don 't make these laws, I just explain how they work. :- r n r nOwnership of a physical thing doesn 't grant ownership of the IP, and doesn 't grant the owner a right to, e.g., make copies of ... |
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Comment In: Spry Fox Attacks the Clones [Blog - 09/28/2012 - 01:21]
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I 'm not advocating this, ... I 'm not advocating this, just throwing the idea out there: what about creating some sort of sui generis IP protection for truly original game mechanics -- like a 3 year right narrowly targeted at cloning After that, enforcement could be limited to traditional copyright, which would not reach to ... |
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Comment In: There is 'substantial similarity' between Triple Town and Yeti Town - U.S. court [News - 09/24/2012 - 07:16]
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It 's a big copyright ... It 's a big copyright win for Spry Fox, imho. And there 's some very interesting stuff about copyright in game mechanics to be found in the opinion. That said, it 's a Ninth Circuit district court ruling with a procedural posture that is favorable to Spry Fox, so we ... |
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Comment In: The case against Zynga: What if EA wins? [News - 08/06/2012 - 09:38]
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Hi Sean -- it 's ... Hi Sean -- it 's true that I am a professor and I don 't work in the games industry. But re the facts: Dan 's explanation and the Complaint both state that this is a copyright infringement lawsuit, not a suit for trade secret misappropriation. Dan 's post also ... |
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Comment In: EA sues Zynga, claims The Ville is a copy of The Sims Social [News - 08/03/2012 - 01:41]
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Well, you never know, but ... Well, you never know, but I don 't think there a serious risk of an opinion saying that resource management systems as game mechanics are protected under copyright law. Section 102 says: In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, ... |
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Comment In: The Erosion of Creative Freedom? The Battle over Publicity Rights [Feature - 07/11/2012 - 04:15]
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Hi Kevin, r n r ... Hi Kevin, r n r nThanks for all of that. Just a couple of quick replies: r n r nRe expanding the right to non-celebrities -- I think the right does extend to them, but I think the absence of licensing rates to get a monetary damages remedy limits the ... |
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