I think the court would probably see it as a derivative in this case. If you came up with something without looking at the original code you probably could get

I think the court would probably see it as a derivative in this case. If you came up with something without looking at the original code you probably could get away with it. I think the term is 'colorization'. It would probably depend on how the lawyer presented the case. In this case it is basically just a transform of the original thing to do the original thing. https://chart.copyrightdata.com/Colorization.html https://chart.copyrightdata.com/Colorization.html https://www.traverselegal.com/blog/can-derivative-works-be-copyrighted/ https://www.traverselegal.com/blog/can-derivative-works-be-c... I think most groups that do this sort of thing understand that. Just depends on the company you are doing it to and how understanding they are of it and how much are they willing to spend to go after it. If you are spending thousands to go after something that may make you 200 bucks off of over the next 20 years you are just spending money on something that is basically worthless to the company. In this case they are probably burning a lot of good will. The mod community for those games is huge and in many ways keep those games interesting for people.