It can be both homage and copyright infringement. Homage isn’t a legal exception.
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They can’t tease a Goldeneye remake for the exact same reason they can’t host these levels.
It’s literally not fair use. The level design isn’t being used as academic material to supplement a lecture on good game design. It’s being used as a level in a first person shooter for people to play.
The IP relates to designs, not names. The issue isn’t that a name was used. It’s that a design was copied.
Copyright doesn’t guarantee you make money off something. It just protects your IP.
Even if they were sued and managed to win the case, they would still have to pay up legal fees to endure the lawsuit. Why would they want to risk paying a greater-than-$0 amount than simply removing the content?
“a 20 year old game is a museum piece. it belongs to everyone.”
“By law you are allowed to recreate art and even sell it”
FC5 is a decent game on its own. I don’t know why you wouldn’t bother with it at all now.
In addition to what jvook said, the assets in the FC5 editor are pieces with which to create the maps. The issue here is not the use of assets, but the recreation of maps.
In addition to what jvook said, what distinguishes those levels isn’t the explicit references to the Bond property, but the design of the levels. If you as a gamer would be able to recognize those levels regardless of the textures, logos, and effects, then you recognize what makes them artistically distinct.
“Didn’t the user create those levels”
I wonder if that argument would work in court when getting slapped with a lawsuit for millions based on IP infringement.
Preface: I don’t like or agree with the extent of copyright now.
I am against this kind of IP overreach, generally.
Well . . . I never paid close attention to this, because I don’t think I ever buy games at full price, and the discounts I wait for are cheap enough that I never thought, what if it’s even lower somewhere else.
Not really? I can think of several things you might be referring to, but none of them apply to this statement.
“im in australia”
Definitely what.
As a fan of the typical lego games, I always joked with my brother (who is not a fan) that I need to update my graphics card to handle the latest Lego games (which are typically not at all graphically demanding).