It looks like Valve doesn't want to get involved in a potential dispute between the creator of Portal 64 and Nintendo.

Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn’t even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

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

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

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

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

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            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.