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TrackIR uses a shitty poem as part of its initialization routine so it will fall under copyright so the makers can control who writes software for it.
by extrapickles 9y ago
TrackIR uses a shitty poem as part of its initialization routine so it will fall under copyright so the makers can control who writes software for it.
- B0073D 9y agoDo you have a source for that? (no pun intended)
- extrapickles 9y agoYou can find one of their DCMA notices here: https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/63305# https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/63305#
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- duskwuff 9y agoThat seems unlikely to hold up in court. Sega v. Accolade was a very similar situation, and the court found that Accolade's use of a copyrighted string (the "Trademark Security System") was acceptable as an unavoidable requirement of Sega's console. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade