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You are confusing copyright and trademark. Trademark is what says you can't release a game called the same thing as someone else's game, in the same way that a
by aiiane 11y ago
You are confusing copyright and trademark. Trademark is what says you can't release a game called the same thing as someone else's game, in the same way that a random publisher can't call themselves "Tor" and hope no one notices. Copyright is what says you can't publish the same book that Tor does under a different name.
- pfisch 11y agoEither way you are essentially just taking advantage of the marketing budget and production of someone else.
- TheDong 11y agoAnd The Martian took advantage of NASA's budget and Star War's budget by also being about space. And OS X took advantage of Microsoft's marketing budget for the idea of Laptops / computers. Who cares if you're gaining recognition by making a derivative of something that already exists? When some parent product marketed something, it was for its own benefit. If I also benefit, that doesn't mean I'm stealing their marketing budget out from under them, it means I'm taking advantage of what people already are familiar with. I do think your statement that someone making a derivative work is taking advantage of the original's marketing budget, recognition, etc.... I just don't see why that matters. Hell, the derivative work often-as-not can act as further marketing for the original.