There’s a video game called Minecraft. It’s made by Mojang, now a subsidiary of Microsoft, and it’s probably the trope […]
Tag Archive for ‘Copyright’
In which I grumble about artificial scarcity in video games
I saw this video a while back; it’s about video game publishers arguing successfully to the U.S. Copyright Office that […]
The Saint and the disgusting copyright
Recently I was reminded of one of Leslie Charteris’ Saint novellas, collected in The Ace of Knaves (occasionally AKA The […]
“Stop! I own Hela!”
Here’s a copyright notice I noticed recently: […]
An idiot at the Jim Pattison Group claimed to own dozens of Super Mario Bros. speedruns
Speedrunning, for those of you who don’t know, is a type of video game competition where people try to run […]
An idiot at Universal claimed to own a government documentary
There’s a short documentary called “Your Life Work: The Librarian,” which was part of a series of career-guidance films published […]
An idiot at NBC claimed to own Beat Saber’s soundtrack
There’s a video game called Beat Saber, in which you wear a VR headset and basically play drums with lightsabers. […]
Today I learned that the creators of the original “Trump Baby” blimp tried and failed to assert copyright to stop […]
A trailer for Fortnite’s latest “battle pass” was temporarily copyright-struck off of Epic Games’ official YouTube channel… by Epic Games. […]
Ray of Infamy 