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Crikey... that whole page is one giant copyright infringement.

 insaniak wrote:
Crikey... that whole page is one giant copyright infringement.

Yeah, kind of throws a different light on their statement from the article. Reading about the 3D sculptor should also be a reminder to people that they should really be forming limited liability companies when setting up any business, to avoid the potential for your own personal finances to be wrecked by things like lawsuits.

This does also highlight one of the weaknesses of the current legal system when it comes to international copyright. It's weird to me that these cases are being brought in Florida. If they're associated with activity on a specific platform I would have thought the appropriate filing location would be the home state of that business (New York for Etsy, California for Patreon). It does seem to be a bit of a weird quirk of the US legal system that shopping around for a favourable court is even a thing in the first place but it seems to be made worse by the almost total discretion the company filing the lawsuit has in where to bring a case.

 insaniak wrote:
Crikey... that whole page is one giant copyright infringement.

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell us that its all fine, evil GW suchforth.

 insaniak wrote:
Crikey... that whole page is one giant copyright infringement.

As long as the original product was also a console controller, right?

That one about the controllers definitely comes across quite different when you actually see what they were selling.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
Crikey... that whole page is one giant copyright infringement.

As long as the original product was also a console controller, right?

Copying someone's artwork onto a controller is no different to copying someone's artwork onto dice, or t-shirts, or posters, or whatever. They're using someone else's IP to make custom controllers, and selling them as "[IP Name] Custom Controller". They have absolutely no legal leg to stand on here.

beast_gts wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
going by the story the sales figure GW have arrived at for the BeetleDash one is questionable.

Someone on Reddit pointed out they'd been selling multiple items - Wayback Machine

Pretty damning proof that they were totally lying in that other article.

This seems strangely appropriate for this whole topic:

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski

 Orkeosaurus wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
going by the story the sales figure GW have arrived at for the BeetleDash one is questionable.

Someone on Reddit pointed out they'd been selling multiple items - Wayback Machine

Pretty damning proof that they were totally lying in that other article.

Yeah, from the article I was almost willing to be on that dude's side, but then I saw the rest of his shop. That's a hard 'Nope!' from me.

Slipspace wrote:
It's weird to me that these cases are being brought in Florida.

The law firm GW have contracted this out to (Brickell IP Group) is based in Florida (Miami & Tampa), so that's a possible reason - sympathetic courts are another.

Florida is one of the few states that allow such a lawsuit in the first place, that is why GW hired a firm in Florida to file that case there