Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself

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“Licensing negotiations with myself have been quite challenging, but we’ve finally settled the matter, with me granting myself a license.”

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I’m glad both parties could come to a resolution.. sometimes copyright lawsuits can get quite nasty abd lengthy! Would hate for this poor idie dev to go bankrupt to himself suing himself. Refreshing!

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Somehow Nintendo is making money from this regardless

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Yeah, because you just said their name… I hope you’ve got good lawyers, buddy.

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Reggie just kicked my door down. Tell my family I love them

Edit: Oh my god they just shot my Nintendog

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I’m glad both party

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これが私自身が私自身にライセンスを許可した歴史的な例の書類です。 今後同様の問題に直面した開発者のために公開しておくことにしました。 重ね重ね、Steamの柔軟なサポートに感謝します。

Daikichi This is a document of a historical example in which I myself granted a license to myself. I have decided to make it public for developers who may face similar issues in the future. Once again, I sincerely thank Steam for their flexible support. Daikichi

https://xcancel.com/Wired_Tokyo/status/2052936931173118320

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“I have decided to make it public for developers who may face similar issues in the future.”

What a bro. Now this is what solidarity looks like

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Yet another overwhelming W for small creators thanks to copyright

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This is the funniest gaming story ever

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Kind of a funny thing, but from what I see, totally understandable. The third party, Valve in this case, doesn’t actually know who created what, just that one piece of media has stuff from a different, unrelated piece of media which can cause lawsuits if stolen. I think. Idk, IANAL, and I’m also not a lawyer.

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Plus, at the end, the only thing that Valve required was a statement that the two named entities are, in fact, both DBAs for one particular person, signed by that person.

Funny headlines, but 100% normal IP CYA behavior.

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Hey what are you doing this weekend I have an idea

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Is it the whole IANAL thing? Because thats not what you think it means…

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But they said IANAL and also I’m not a lawyer. So it has to be what I think it is.

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it has to be!

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And this is financial advice, too!

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Yeah, if it starts happening a lot they should consider some sort of enhancement to their internal customer database and/or front end, but this just seems like some annoying bureaucracy in the name of scalability that was bypassed with a fairly silly but simple workaround.

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Licensing it open source would also solve this issue

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