Tag Archives: Copyright

What’s All This About Let’s Play Videos?

Earlier today, the news started circulating that Nintendo plans on monetizing videos that feature its video games. Not all videos mind you, just videos of certain unspecified lengths. Here is Nintendo’s statement to the website Go Nintendo: As part of our on-going push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an [...]

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Copying Mechanics is Not Theft, Nor is it Infringement

I recently wrote this article on Gamasutra in response to a pair of articles which talked about the practice of copying game mechanics. The discussion has been interesting. So here it is for my own records. I had never heard of Vlambeer or Gamenauts before yesterday. I had never heard of Radical Fishing or Ninja [...]

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