• BrooklynMan
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    1 year ago

    I suppose that they could release it for free as an open-source project and not brother with all of that

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      No, they’d still need IP rights for the characters/world/name. Releasing it for free doesn’t alleviate that issue in any way.

      They could strip it of all of the Simpsons related stuff, but they’d also have to create new levels, since those are owned by the original publisher.

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        And if a company wants to fuck with you, it can sue you anyway over minor likeness until it exhaust you from money to attend hearings.

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        Yep. There would be a line of lawyers at that guys door the next day to ruin his entire life. I’m surprised they haven’t already. Would love to play it but unless there is a “leak” it’s not happening.

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          They can’t do anything as long it’s not commercially available. It’s now nothing more than a personal project. Best they can do is DCMA it to stop sharing images/video’s of the project. That’s the Nintendo route at least.

          If he’s lucky, some publisher will see it, will also see the money and tries to get hold of a license to publish and make a deal with this guy.

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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        They may be able to release without the assets and leave that up to the reader to figure out. Like various emulators that depend on you finding firmware binaries to work.