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Why would Valve be on the hook for copyright? If a particular game developer happens to get sued (which happens regardless of AI), all Valve has to do is remov

Why would Valve be on the hook for copyright? If a particular game developer happens to get sued (which happens regardless of AI), all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam. Assuming this is even real, it may have more to do with preventing another 1989 video game crash resulting from the market being overwhelmed with crappy games. Then again, most AAA games today are broken pieces of suck, so IDK.

henryfjordan 3y ago
If Valve takes a % of sales from a game that is full of copyright infringement, they can be sued for their cut from the sales plus maybe more and they need to pay the lawyers. They also care about their reputation amongst content-producers (game makers). Youtube faced this exact dynamic back in the day and have found it better to side with the large creators who care very much about protecting IP rights and so they exercise a heavy hand against copyrighted material.
usrusr 3y ago
"all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam." And take the reputation hit that would go along with that. Valve's business is 30% technology and 70% the reputation of being much less untrustworthy than the alternatives. If they lose that they can close shop.
- shultays 3y ago
  Valve's business is its user base, as long as it has that I think they will survive.
  - usrusr 3y ago
    How are reputation and user base not the same?
    - shultays 3y ago
      99.9999% of user base won't care about a few game Valve removed from its store. And they will care even less if they decide to not publish a game at all like they did in this instance. Valve is not really losing any reputation among users for not releasing some games Valve might lose some reputation among the devs if they keep rejecting or removing games but that is far from reality, at least for now. Things perhaps might change if game studios starts picking up AI generated stuff more and more and Valve decides to blanket ban them. But even then the users of Steam is a juicy target for devs and it is a hard market to ignore.

henryfjordan 3y ago

If Valve takes a % of sales from a game that is full of copyright infringement, they can be sued for their cut from the sales plus maybe more and they need to pay the lawyers. They also care about their reputation amongst content-producers (game makers). Youtube faced this exact dynamic back in the day and have found it better to side with the large creators who care very much about protecting IP rights and so they exercise a heavy hand against copyrighted material.

usrusr 3y ago

"all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam." And take the reputation hit that would go along with that. Valve's business is 30% technology and 70% the reputation of being much less untrustworthy than the alternatives. If they lose that they can close shop.

shultays 3y ago
Valve's business is its user base, as long as it has that I think they will survive.
- usrusr 3y ago
  How are reputation and user base not the same?
  - shultays 3y ago
    99.9999% of user base won't care about a few game Valve removed from its store. And they will care even less if they decide to not publish a game at all like they did in this instance. Valve is not really losing any reputation among users for not releasing some games Valve might lose some reputation among the devs if they keep rejecting or removing games but that is far from reality, at least for now. Things perhaps might change if game studios starts picking up AI generated stuff more and more and Valve decides to blanket ban them. But even then the users of Steam is a juicy target for devs and it is a hard market to ignore.