it’s impossible to judge an idea on its own, not seeing how it ties into the game and its mechanics, so I’m not opposed to the concept, but knowing the studio and that several of their games are pretty short and have fairly poor gameplay mechanics, it’ll be hard for some to not see this as an artificial way to boost…

No, you’re confusing copyright with trademark. Copyright remains even if you don’t defend against all infringements. It’s only trademarks you have to defend or risk losing them to becoming generic terms. This applies to names, logos, that sort of thing.

As a long-time Street Fighter fan, this title has made me realize how much I want Capcom to give this IP up. Yes, I know it will never ever happen but they’ve mishandled pretty much everything about SFV from start to finish. It’s gone from bad to worse.

“Since video game mods feature copyrighted materials, it’s not legal to charge for them.”

SPOILERS!

Funny how they don’t mention the death threats she’s tossed out..

What about her doxxing her parents and then blaming her lawyer for it? (A lawyer bought and paid for by her parents btw) Or harassing her lawyer for not being able to win against a slam-dunk TRO? Or the utterance of death threats against Imagos employees, their council and those who are not “on her side” (a part of…

Not RCRU or Imagos. They’ve done everything reasonable to make things right with Mauer. She chose to go the scorched earth route, target her own family for harassment and issue threats of bodily harm against several people.

She does need professional help. And apparently she was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold at one point. But she’s still a bully. Bullies can be mentally unstable too (often are).

And that which you’ve just described is the part being left out by the gaming media. They’re focused on the copyright battle which is the least relevant part of this whole thing (she’s wrong, her work for hire belongs to the company that hired her, she’s going to have a lengthy court battle to tell her that).

Criticism is fair game, you can badmouth anything all you want and I’ll support your right to it, but when you start maliciously seeking out people to threaten them, to harass them, or to make their life worse than it was before

She is not bullying through legal channels when she doxxed multiple people and threatens to kill multiple games journalists. If you want to condone that behaviour, then maybe https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/ is a better community for you.

There is the side of all of the people that have been impacted by Mauer’s DMCA takedowns (at least one Youtube channel has been taken down due to it) - further to that, Mauer has issued death threats to both the Lawyer representing Imago and to Youtuber SidAlpha.

Sad that kotaku neglects to mention she is a big part of the harassment as she is sending death threats and acting crazy with even her lawyers.

She’s sent death threats, DMCA’d over 100 Youtube videos, harmed dozens or even hundreds of people at this point, sent take downs to 6 different games’ trailers, videos and/or steam pages, posted the private information of ex-lawyers, her ex-wife, her parents, even a 15 year old boy who just wanted to talk to her and…

And Kotaku joins Destructoid and Ars Technica in only reporting one side of this story. Not all stories really have two equal sides, but this one has a side that the gaming press is going to great lengths not to write about. Good job Kotaku, you suck.

see, thats not right. She was a sub contractor to Rich who was contracted to the game company. She can only sue the subcontractor, and she has no rights to the work, even if they never paid in full. The subcontractor owns her work and all rights not exclusively give, which in this case is proper attribution. If…

No, she’s a bully. She’s issued death threats to youtubers and copyright lawyers working on this story. She’s painstakingly issued DMCA takedowns against youtubers in a way that causes the most damage possible to their channels (the youtubers here have done nothing wrong btw).

Did you know she has sent out a multitude of death threats? Even to the lawyer representing Imagos? Did you know after her family got her under 72 psych evaluation because she was sending death threats she disowned them and recently doxxed her own family?! Did you know that she mocked a disabled Tuber after he told…

I agree with the practicality of your statement but disagree on the values of it.