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.
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