I was exploring the iOS appstore and I decided to look at the Minecraft inspired games (not clones). I saw a shooting game, and a driving game, and with close examination I could see that the games used textures from Minecraft itself!
My question is, "How have they not gotten in trouble?" Minecraft clones are another thing, but actually using content from a game that's not their's? This is consider plagiarism and could possibly get them in big trouble, but they haven't yet! Even worse, these are paid games, so they, are in a way, making money off something that isn't their's.
I'm not very good with copyright laws, but I do believe that even if they change one dot of it, it is legal, or if they change a certain percentage of it. "Surevivalcraft" Is one, but they are different, but similar.
I'm not very good with copyright laws, but I do believe that even if they change one dot of it, it is legal, or if they change a certain percentage of it. "Surevivalcraft" Is one, but they are different, but similar.
I haven't seen survivalcraft have any stolen textures.... lemme check...
As bad as copying is, there's enough of it on the internet that you'd go insane if you tried to stamp it all out. I imagine those games have a relatively small audience, and it wouldn't be worth Mojang's time to go after them unless they got really big.
How about a supposed "tech" site telling people how to install and run the game for free on windows 8 and even sharing it for download on a mediafire link?
Simple there are just too many of them and Mojang trying to crack down on them would turn them into the "bad guy" to many in the online community. The derp brained "all info should be free" juvenile delinquents of Anonymous would be all over Mojang along with 4chan and other worse places.
Mojang is making good money, the game is selling well still, they don't need to try to catch every pirate or file a lawsuit against every person who might be infringing on their copyright. Many of Notch's tweets in this regard evidence a "live and let live" attitude towards the whole piracy/copying thing, I really don't think they are all that worried about it.
Do you mean DeathCraft? My friend who's new to Minecraft once yelled at me because he thought there were officially guns in Minecraft, and for a while I was thinking it was a mod pack. So I hate them too. The creators of those copies, I mean.
I doubt Mojang cares, they stated they are not taking legal action against the creator of FortressCraft (I think that's what it's called) so I doubt that they would take action against people who use their textures. There is no legal way of copyrighting a texture anyways. As far as I know they can license their source code because that is easliy measured, but when it comes to textures, if they manage to copyright any given texture someone can take it, change the hue and/or saturation and that results in a brand new texture. Sure it's exactly the same as before other than the color, but in terms of the law it's an entirely new image.
My question is, "How have they not gotten in trouble?" Minecraft clones are another thing, but actually using content from a game that's not their's? This is consider plagiarism and could possibly get them in big trouble, but they haven't yet! Even worse, these are paid games, so they, are in a way, making money off something that isn't their's.
I haven't seen survivalcraft have any stolen textures.... lemme check...
I know but these are even clones! They're completely different games using another game's content.
If I'm thinking of the right game, Minecraft and SurvivalCraft's textures look really, really close.
http://windows8themes.org/playing-java-games-how-to-play-minecraft-in-windows-8.html
How do they get away with this?
Simple there are just too many of them and Mojang trying to crack down on them would turn them into the "bad guy" to many in the online community. The derp brained "all info should be free" juvenile delinquents of Anonymous would be all over Mojang along with 4chan and other worse places.
Mojang is making good money, the game is selling well still, they don't need to try to catch every pirate or file a lawsuit against every person who might be infringing on their copyright. Many of Notch's tweets in this regard evidence a "live and let live" attitude towards the whole piracy/copying thing, I really don't think they are all that worried about it.
(Fixed a spelling typo)
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