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Microsoft owns the copyright to everything created in Minecraft?! That's news to me. Is it in the Terms of Service or something? I would very much hope that wo
by Wowfunhappy 2y ago
Microsoft owns the copyright to everything created in Minecraft?! That's news to me. Is it in the Terms of Service or something?
I would very much hope that wouldn't hold up in court.
- moomin 2y agoIt’s mentioned in the article, there’s case law.
- Wowfunhappy 2y agoI read the article again, what am I missing? I'm sorry, I know I must be skipping over something somehow but I don't know what!
- moomin 2y agoThat's my reading of the following: A case before the High Court (roughly analogous to the US Supreme Court) determined that images produced in a video game were the property of the game developer, not the player -- even though the player manipulated the game to produce a unique arrangement of game assets on the screen.
- Wowfunhappy 2y agoAh—I wonder if that would really apply to something like Minecraft though. See, I do agree with the court if you're playing through a linear game like Portal or Uncharted. Yes, technically the exact frames are unique to your playthrough, but the creativity came from the game developer. Minecraft is something very different.
- moomin 2y agoI think this comes down to the point of the article: the whole question is an undecided legal minefield.