Re: So says one admitted nut-burger. Translating isn't creative.
> The obvious refutation is that stealing movies costing million of dollars without giving even a penny to the creators for it is proportionately worse.
Leaving aside the theft argument, it doesn't matter which is worse, because they're both blatantly illegal.
Assuming the official Italian translation was released worldwide, it would be subject to the local laws everywhere it was released, some of which clearly give copyright to the fan translator.
There are past cases of fan translations being used officially, but none I can think of that did so without asking the fans, probably for this reason.
There never was a legitimate copyright on Steamboat Willie, because the copyright notice was botched. This is similar to the Night of the Living Dead situation, but unlike Romero, no one's ever gone after Disney in court.
It's interesting to note that both games have had their share of nationality issues in the past. OOTP Baseball didn't track secondary nationalities until this year's game, so a few Japanese-born players in South Korean leagues (or vice versa) were listed as the wrong nationality.
Why no mention of the name of the developer, "who is well known"?
The source for this is /r/legaladvice. Its users tend to avoid naming involved companies unless they have to, and the subreddit specifically bans posting of personally identifiable information.
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There's only one solution to this mess.
Abuse your copyright? Lose your copyright.
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I'd like to see what their basis for that claim is.
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Re: So says one admitted nut-burger. Translating isn't creative.
Leaving aside the theft argument, it doesn't matter which is worse, because they're both blatantly illegal.
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Re: New Work
There are past cases of fan translations being used officially, but none I can think of that did so without asking the fans, probably for this reason.
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Re:
https://www.xkcd.com/326/
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To which I ask: What copyright?
There never was a legitimate copyright on Steamboat Willie, because the copyright notice was botched. This is similar to the Night of the Living Dead situation, but unlike Romero, no one's ever gone after Disney in court.
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Re: OOTP
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At the very least...
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Re: Clean-room reverse engineering?
Why no mention of the name of the developer, "who is well known"?
The source for this is /r/legaladvice. Its users tend to avoid naming involved companies unless they have to, and the subreddit specifically bans posting of personally identifiable information.
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