Thread 718665574

Indie Godot video game developer Miziziziz (picrel), who got rich after one of his low-res visually simple slop horror games became popular with streamers, has copyrighted H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Lurking Fear in order to turn it into another low-res visually simple slop horror game.
Say goodbye to any future adaptations of The Lurking Fear.
https://youtu.be/uSb6hrGscVE?si=cLkffKtrQ2dSXege&t=644

>>718665574 (OP)
>has copyrighted H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Lurking Fear
Based fuck the copyright fag, time they face the wrath of gamers with the taste of their own medicines, FUCK diSNEY

>>718665574 (OP)
That's not how copyright works.

>>718665574 (OP)
absolutely based

>>718665748
>Noooo you can't just copyright something that already exists and has been iterated upon by others and that you had no involvement with the original whatsoever
If Nintendo can do it, why can't some random literally who grifter?

that EVIL RACIST CHUD Lovecraft deserves it

>>718665574 (OP)
>1923
should be public domain no?
not watching the video i dont care enough

>>718666115
>should be public domain
Not anymore thanks to Miz.

millenials thread

>>718665574 (OP)
How is that different from multiple games based on call of cthulhu? Public domain, multiple games of the same name

>>718665574 (OP)
Not SCP. I don't care.

>>718665574 (OP)
Since when you can copyright public domain stuff?

>godot
still waiting for this garbage to become usable for people interested in making games and not learning tool ideosyncracies and appeasing communities

>>718668382
You cant. But you retain copyright over your unique creation.
No one owns Snow White, but Disney owns their original animation and its derivatives.

>>718665574 (OP)
He did a copyright check for the name, he didn't copyright it you brainless moron.
He did trademark the name so people can't really use the same name now, story is still free to use though.

so books cant trademark titles, but video games can trademark titles they stole from books

>>718669028
Trademarks are only enforceable within the same type of good.
Books and videogames are considered different enough that they don't interfere with each other's trademarks. At least in the US

>>718665709
Aren't those stories in the public domain by now?

>>718667098
This is like if someone trademarked the name "Call of Cthulhu" so that no one could ever make an adaptation again using that title.

>>718665574 (OP)
>copyright a story that was published in the 1920s and is now in the public domain
What did retard-kun mean by this?

I should clone this fags game using AI and release it before he does

>>718669862
based idea, do this

>>718666602
That's not how that works.

none of that is true.
have a nice day

Someone should copyright Lovecraft's cats name.

>>718670497
Hello Miziziz.

>>718665574 (OP)
Is it public domain or did he buy the rights from the Estate?

>>718670513
I already did. You're not allowed to say it anymore.

>>718670652
It WAS public domain, not anymore thanks to Miziziziz.

>>718671418
Erhm... Based?????

>>718665574 (OP)
1650 Ti and 8gb ram for THIS? Lol and this is the guy who makes tutorials on optimizing godot games...

>>718674112
that description is extremely low effort. he didnt even give it a second pass to see if it sounds enticing?

>>718674819
Yep very boring. Describes every indie horror game made in the past few years with nothing to set it apart.

>>718674819
It's a minimalistic effort.

>>718675148
you got me there

>>718666054
Learn how public domain works you spastic. This thread is dogshit and your IQ is subhuman

>>718669730
Can you point out where he exactly copyrighted a public domain name? He has copyright to HIS adaptation of The Lurking Fear, but he cannot copyright the story as a whole. This means that his unique spins on the story, or unique dialogue might be argued as copyright, but the story, characters and any text lifted from the original text are not his, nor is the name. Anyone else can making a The Lurking Fear video game as long as its not re-using works from this adaptation. If this dev were to somehow try enforce his own copyright, he'd have to prove the other game is using his own assets and ideas, separate of the public domain. If he cannot do that, he'd get laughed out of court, provided it went there. Counter claims are very easy to file and he'd bankrupt himself trying to fight an impossible to win case.