The fact that Tyler has to tip-toe around Copyright now is crazy

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インターネット荒らし has Schedule I

Apr 20 @ 5:13am

The fact that Tyler has to tip-toe around Copyright now is crazy

The man made a fun game and now has to work on making stuff compliant as to not get investigated AGAIN instead of working on content. Oh, wait a minute, I have to say "Movie Games, the publisher of "Drug Dealer Simulator," has initiated an investigation into potential copyright infringement by "Schedule 1" due to similarities between the two games." because I wouldn't wanna be sued for spreading misinformation.

Pong? Gone because for some reason a game that came out in 1972 still has copyright holdings by Atari even though Pong has been a dead IP for 53 years. Red Cuke? Nope apparently Coca-Cola has copy written the color red on cans for its branding so you gotta be careful even though you made a fake parity brand and yes literally changing 1 letter in a name is considered acceptable in copyright law i.e. WcDonalds. Make a game about dealing drugs? Get investigated by a poopy asset-flip slop games publisher while the devs claim that they had no idea about the investigation until they saw it online like everyone else and had no hand in all of this.

I know the first two are minimal examples but where does it end, is someone gonna come out of the woodwork and claim they have the copyright to meth or cocaine? What about the strain Granddaddy Purple aka Grand Daddy Purp, is someone gonna try and say they own claim to that as well? This is a never ending rabbit-hole and I hope it doesn't just make Tyler say "Screw it!" and just abandon the game since hes already gotten a fat bag from it, I wouldn't even blame him honestly.

I understand that Copyright law is needed but it's abused so much that at some point you gotta ask yourself if it's really worth it, just look at the pharmaceutical industry and Disney.

Last edited by インターネット荒らし; Apr 20 @ 5:16am

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Shane

Apr 20 @ 5:19am

every one has to tip toe around this stuff, why do you think games harldy use real names for stores, and products, its for a reason

インターネット荒らし has Schedule I

Apr 20 @ 5:23am

Originally posted by Shane:
every one has to tip toe around this stuff, why do you think games harldy use real names for stores, and products, its for a reason

No I get that, that's why it's common to just change a few letters when you want to make a fake parity brand that still has some semblance of the original brand. The issue is that he is over correcting things now. I don't want the man the be paranoid second guessing everything he does because he doesn't want to get into legal trouble.

Paranoia_Inc has Schedule I

Apr 20 @ 5:26am

He does seem to be overly cautious right now. Cuke was obvious parody. Don't think there's a country that doesn't allow for that, but could be wrong. Someone in another thread said just rename the game to Bong. At which point same thing, and be fine. Plenty of games over the years have used the same carbon copy gameplay, just never tried to say it was the original and offical Pong. Another thread pointed out that the peace symbol is actually a Mercedes logo which would be the biggest issue but easily changed.

St✩rlight

Apr 20 @ 5:54am

Originally posted by インターネット荒らし:
Originally posted by Shane:
every one has to tip toe around this stuff, why do you think games harldy use real names for stores, and products, its for a reason
No I get that, that's why it's common to just change a few letters when you want to make a fake parity brand that still has some semblance of the original brand. The issue is that he is over correcting things now. I don't want the man the be paranoid second guessing everything he does because he doesn't want to get into legal trouble.

So you just want him to get into legal trouble?

Ayahuasca

Apr 20 @ 5:59am

He probably has some dipstick legal advisor by now who probably dont know much and is gonna push him over the edge on this crap

OGPG

Apr 20 @ 6:03am

Tyler just made a ♥♥♥♥ ton of $$$$. I'm sure he doesnt want some Corporation to sue him for all of it.

Ayahuasca

Apr 20 @ 6:06am

Meanwhile games like postal 4 are using the nike swoop even and are just fine

Kali Archon has Schedule I

Apr 20 @ 6:09am

The more popular something is, the more big corps notice it. Like Nintendo going after a pokemon mod for minecraft, or Wizards of the Coast going after a Baldur's gate 3 stardew valley mod (and then saying it was an accident) that the CEO of Larian completely applauded and loved

Mr. Rubber Ducky Apr 20 @ 6:35am

Originally posted by St✩rlight:
Originally posted by インターネット荒らし:
No I get that, that's why it's common to just change a few letters when you want to make a fake parity brand that still has some semblance of the original brand. The issue is that he is over correcting things now. I don't want the man the be paranoid second guessing everything he does because he doesn't want to get into legal trouble.
So you just want him to get into legal trouble?

No, no one wants that. But no one wants him to go ultra "burn everything" route where every little thing gets changed based on potentially bad advice he's being given. Parodies are fine, only in Japan you can get sued for a parody and well, he doesn't live in Japan so guy is fine.

Either way, copyright law gets broken by rich all the time. OpenAI does it, Meta does it, any big 'AI' company does it. It's only bad when the poor does it.

Justoh

Apr 20 @ 6:41am

This new orange cuke isn't going to work. Remember when coke tried to rebrand? New coke or some crap? Coke knows this. Probably why they forced the change. RIP schedule 1

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This PC

Apr 20 @ 6:47am

Like, this is just everyday business, Tyler probably hired a copyright lawyer to advise him to avoid further potential copyright issues, and the lawyer did his job. I don't think there was any obligations to do this, more a "okay, my game blew up unexpectedly, and there's some potential issues with that that I haven't anticipated" and a better-safe-than-sorry approach.

You don't have to nose into Tyler's business, I don't know why you people feel like he's your buddy or something, he's gonna be fine rofl. All he wants from you is your patronage (and maybe your feedback on the game), that's what will help him the most.

Social media ruined us. :skull:

Last edited by This PC; Apr 20 @ 6:51am

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