Nintendo has made a lot of questionable decisions lately, but their latest gaffe might just be their worst: multiple YouTube users are reporting that Nintendo has staked a copyright claim on videos featuring footage from Nintendo games. While Nintendo hasn’t removed the videos from YouTube, ad …
Remember my previous article on how Zynga rips off people’s games shamelessly? Well another company that does the same thing picked a fight with the wrong people. Spry Fox, upon hearing that Yeti Town was basically a clone of Triple Town, took action against 6waves.
First, a 101 on property, Viacom owns Spike TV and the abomination we called the VGA which was ruthlessly panned by gamers before, during, and after it because of nobodies polluting the stage instead of people we care about. In most cases when you embarrass an …
If you don’t know, Notch, creator of Minecraft, is working on a project called Scrolls. However, even if Scrolls is a generic word, there are very few games that use it, with 7 using Scroll and even less using Scrolls (Excluding the Elder Scrolls series) according …
The United States Senate is currently considering bill S.978 (PDF), which amends the criminal penalty for copyright violations. Specifically, streaming copyrighted content. According to the bill, public performance of copyrighted material by electronic means ten or more times in a 180 day period can carry a …
The popular provider of questions and answers services, ChaCha has taken HTC to court over issues of copyright infringement. This is something that had been preempted quite in advance by many who had been keeping a close eye on the proceedings. The lawsuit has come as …
