A Japanese indie developer has been blocked from selling his game on Steam for copyright infringement, despite owning the copyright to the IPs Steam believed has been infringed.
A Japanese indie developer has been blocked from selling his game on Steam for copyright infringement, despite owning the copyright to the IPs Steam believed has been infringed.
I mean the games that Steam says are being infringed were developed by the dev under a different name. So they want proof, that it’s really the same dev, which I think is reasonable.
People are always complaining about fraudulent DMCA claims and how anyone can just say they own the rights to something, but apparently doing the opposite thing also also wrong.
IMO this shouldn’t even have made the news, because it’s literally non-news material. I mean seriously? It’s just standard process.
Steam rejects the initial publication, developer provides proof they’re allowed to use the IP, Steam then goes and approves the listing, end of story.
Or, the developer can’t prove they’re the owner or allowed user of the IP and the listing gets rejected.
That’s how copyright should work. Why even make an article about it, aside from trying to demonise the one company that actually does things well and isn’t inherently evil?
Lots of hate for steam is my guess
I suspect Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Epic are all funding as much outrage against Valve as they can, since Linux gaming and open marketplaces threaten all of their business models