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Retro Gaming YouTuber Says Nintendo Is Unfairly Targeting His Homebrew Videos
24Over the weekend, the YouTuber known as Modern Vintage Gamer announced that Nintendo has flagged several of his videos about emulating old games on the Switch, some with hundreds of thousands of views, for copyright infringement. YouTube automatically takes down videos with strikes against them. He said he tried to dispute the claims, but was…
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Star Control: Origins Pulled From Steam And GOG Due To Ongoing Legal Battle
PC stores Steam and GOG took down the video game Star Control: Origins on December 31 following DMCA takedown notices issued by two designers of the original Star Control games, Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III. Star Control: Origins, a spiritual successor to the old games, is a strategy game about exploring space in an…
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CBS Shuts Down Ambitious Fan Effort To Make A Virtual Starship Enterprise
Before there was Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft’s game about piloting the original Enterprise, there was Star Trek Stage 9, a fan project recreating the Enterprise-D from The Next Generation in Unreal Engine. This week the project is no more, following a cease and desist demand by CBS.
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Fan Merch Poses Problems For Indie Developers
Fan artists exist in a legal grey area. In order to make a living, they often sell items that bear the image of characters they don’t own the rights to. Many times they slide under the radar – I own bootleg Harry Potter and Dragon Age merch that I’ve bought at conventions. But making and…