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City of Heroes Homecoming Team Cracking Down On Copyright Infringing Characters - MMORPG.com
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City of Heroes Homecoming Team Cracking Down On Copyright Infringing Characters - MMORPG.com
It looks like copyright infringement is being cracked down upon by the City Of Heroes Homecoming team, via a forum post yesterday.
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If they do a deal with NCsoft they won't be, such is the mercurial nature of that strange thing we call the law.
1- read interesting news about CoH
2- find out a way to make money from home
Check and mate.
Came here to ponder this ^
"classification of games into MMOs is not by rational reasoning" - nariusseldon
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/And its been ruled, in the EU, that if a company continues to use abandoned business software - that they have legally acquired obviously often for millions of dollars - they are not breaking the law. (And that the laws of the land outrank ToSs)
Not sure that has been tested in the US yet so anyone still using Win7 in the US should take note that they might be breaking the law when MS stop supporting it .....
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
actually from a legal standpoint they can still be attacked even if they dont make money..... it depends on if the brands ip is being "hurt" (yes i know they have kinda vaulted this game for a while and dont have any interest in making a new one as far as we are aware)
As to the Homecoming team using the CoH software... I'm generally quite strict about copyrights and such, I even say "facial tissue" instead of the brand name that nearly became synonymous with the generic product. But I feel in this case, now that it's been many years since CoH shut down, and Homecoming has gone public, and NCSoft is NOT suing or demanding they shut down, it's more like someone finding an old computer sitting out on the curb and picking it up, knowing the owner is watching -- and apparently just shrugging or maybe negotiating. If THEY don't care, why should bystanders make such a fuss?
Enter The Mouse. Disney is working hard at getting perpetual rights for IPs. Especially since they are buying many IPs up right and left. Given that Marvel is in the Mouse House now, everyone really wants to have the look of 'not infringing, no, not us!'
Going to court against Disney is like getting nuked from orbit; to be sure...
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
My opinion.
The legal entities are now realizing the problem and we will see changes in trademark laws however there is ALWAYS the one argument being used that will always allow for trademark bullying.
The argument is that ANYTHING that looks even remotely like our product if allowed to continue will allow even more businesses to come close to our trademarks and eventually the market is flooded with similar and diffusing our products worth.
I don't agree with ANY trademark arguments favoring because imo trademarks are TOO CHEAP around $250 and handed out too easily.
We need to better protect small businesses from the large ones enacting trademark bullying,no small business should operate in fear of his competitors.Better hire some good lawyers or all your work could flush down the toilet.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
It's funny that a pirate version of a game that itself was an unlicensed version of the Marvel and DC superhero universes is making a big deal out of this... unless they're just belatedly including this standard TOS bit, have no intention of being more strict with policing it than anyone else, and we're the ones making a big deal out of it.
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Why did TonyV walk away from the negotiations when, as he states, they are almost done? This is scary, IMO. The answers supplied did not meet my satisfaction, and quite honestly, I think there are a lot of people out there that agree. Yes, real life rules, but why walk away when you are almost done? I would think he would be a hero in the gaming world if he pulls this off. There are a lot of things that are not so good that come to mind about why he is walking away.
I know that a couple of gaming companies have attempted to reach out to NCsoft about this IP, but NCsoft has not replied. At all, not even a courtesy email. If they were in negotiations, I would think they would at least say as much to these game companies. Back in April, when the team said they were in negotiations, a Reddit troll trying to be funny scared them so much that they closed everything they were working on, which cost them some money. This did not seem like a team in negotiations, and it is hard for me to believe they are in negotiations now.
Don't get me wrong, I really hope the Homecoming Team pulls this off. CoH still has a lot of life left in it. But until NCsoft says something to someone, anyone, in the public realm, I am really nervous about the whole situation.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!