“all we know is ubisoft took it down because they CLAIM someone else asked them to.”
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What are those obvious reasons? There have been ports of DS games before. Heaven forbid Konami puts in the slightest amount of effort.
Oh no . . . because it’s Konami, it’s literally just going to collect these three games in one package, as opposed to the GBA and DS games altogether, isn’t it?
It can, yes. That’s literally the issue here.
“brief excerpts of copyright material”
It wasn’t a take, it was a question (two questions, really). You failed to provide an answer.
No, I’m not talking about art, this is content that is playable in the game engine. It’s serving the exact same gameplay function in FC5 as it did in Goldeneye, which is why it’s IP infringement.
“they in fact do,”
“let’s take it to court, then”
The base game costs money.
If you hate Ubisoft so much, why would this news upset you? Wouldn’t you be blaming the user for using a service you think he should have stayed away from?
It’s not free, though. People have to buy FC5.
You can’t “anonymously leak it.” It was a map that was uploaded to the game on Ubisoft’s servers, so other people can play it. There is nowhere else to upload it because you can’t play a map that’s not part of a game. There is nothing to “play.”
“Isn’t this basically fan art?”
“if I recreate those levels out of mashed potatoes on my dining table and show it to my neighbors, MGM will come after me too?”
I was explaining the situation, not making a value statement about whether or not I like it.
Obligated by whom?
Developers tend to be work-for-hire. The people who make the maps are paid to complete the job. It’s the publisher that continues to make money off of the games, if the games continue to make money.
Games don’t share sentiments because they don’t have sentiments. Humans have sentiments.
No, the claimant would be whoever holds the rights to those game properties, which would be MGM. Rare was the developer, not the publisher. Rare developed Donkey Kong 64, that doesn’t mean Rare holds the rights to Donkey Kong, obviously.