• Coki91@dormi.zone
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    1 year ago

    Actually, you can, in counted cases Copyright Game Mechanics, see: Shadows of Mordor: Nemesis System and Bandai Namco “Auxiliary Games” (Mini-Games during Loading Screen)

    Creative Outlets as well as Game Developers could be sued if they made from scratch something remarkably similar to those Game Mechanics

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      1 year ago

      Those are patents. Patents are not copyright, although they both fall under the general umbrella of intellectual property protection.

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        Not even journalists understand IP law these days. They’re like “the patent was filed so that competing products could be DMCA’d” 🤦‍♂️