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That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by billothekid2@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The actually law DEMANDS you defend your IP or you effectively lose it

Portal64 builds the ROM locally. A legal copy of Portal for PC is required to extract and convert the assets. Websites distributing the finished ROM are liable for copyright violation against Valve but Valve isn't liable for anything regarding that fan project by Nintendo.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You know that's not how lawyers view projects in development

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know that’s not his lawyers view projects in development

You know that Nintendo's lawyers did not even raise a finger, right?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When did I say Nintendo

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

When did I say Nintendo

The repeated claim is that Valve acted on behalf of Nintendo because it uses APIs copyrighted by Nintendo. At no point did Valve protest the use of their assets.