04-03-2016, 08:48 PM
(04-03-2016, 03:40 PM)Goemar Wrote: Well I can't say I read EVERYTHING above but well, read a fair but and go the general gist. Anyways, here's my 2 pence on the whole thing.
As for sprites. You know, technically, yeah they are copyrighted and I'm sure if Nintendo or whoever REALLY wanted to they could remove them from the internet. But well, they don't loose any money because of them. Now if someone takes a load of sprites and makes a paid for iOS game - then that should be illegal. Hell even if they made a free game it should be wrong. But just how a photo of Mona Lisa isn't stealing either is displaying sprites. Basically sprites themselves aren't illegal, it's more what's done with them. Things like Dorkly's funny sprite videos are a huge grey area, and in that kind of situation I think it's really up to the company. Though from a legal standpoint it may avoid copyright law as they are being used for an completely different purpose and possibly protected by parody laws.
Yeah, it's a lot to read.
Yeah. Technically, they could take the stuff down, but the lashback they'd take from the fan-bases would be massive. I daresay this would get a hacktivist organization involved, and they don't need or want that. Fair use is supposed to protect fan works and parodies, and other special cases. But just like public domain, this is being slowly eroded-away. It also doesn't help youtube doesn't give a shit their contentID system is a massive failure.