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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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* ''[[Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman]]'' was forcibly renamed to ''[[What Did I Do to Deserve This My Lord]]?'' after an angry letter from [[ |
* ''[[Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman]]'' was forcibly renamed to ''[[What Did I Do to Deserve This My Lord]]?'' after an angry letter from [[Warner Bros.]] |
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* The [[Tetris]] Company absolutely ''adores'' this trope. They claim to have [[Disney Owns This Trope|copyrights on basically every aspect of the game]], even those which the US Supreme Court has ruled ''cannot be copyrighted'' ([[wikipedia:Lotus v. Borland|Lotus v. Borland]]), and they'll send C&D letters to anyone who so much as dares make a game with falling tetrominoes, or even just the song "Korobeiniki" (which is actually a Russian folk song long in the public domain, but often remembered as "the Tetris theme"). |
* The [[Tetris]] Company absolutely ''adores'' this trope. They claim to have [[Disney Owns This Trope|copyrights on basically every aspect of the game]], even those which the US Supreme Court has ruled ''cannot be copyrighted'' ([[wikipedia:Lotus v. Borland|Lotus v. Borland]]), and they'll send C&D letters to anyone who so much as dares make a game with falling tetrominoes, or even just the song "Korobeiniki" (which is actually a Russian folk song long in the public domain, but often remembered as "the Tetris theme"). |
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** ''Blockles'' was pulled after a lawsuit from The Tetris Company was settled out of court and replaced with a ''[[Puyo Puyo]]'' clone. |
** ''Blockles'' was pulled after a lawsuit from The Tetris Company was settled out of court and replaced with a ''[[Puyo Puyo]]'' clone. |
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* The mission "Hollywood and Vain" in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion pack for ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2]]'' featured parodies of iconic Hollywood action heroes, namely "[[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnnie Frankenfurter]]", "[[Sylvester Stallone|Sammy Stallion]]" and "[[Clint Eastwood|Flint Westwood]]", as controllable infantry units complete with (campy) voice impressions of the respective actors. While EA and/or Westwood could have easily cited Fair Use per ''Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'' which set precedent for commercial parodies of existing works or people, they instead played it safe and disabled the actors' voices in patch 1.001, replacing them instead with a generic GI voice set. Patching the game to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTgtrOdMe40 restore] the excised voices is trivial though. |
* The mission "Hollywood and Vain" in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion pack for ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2]]'' featured parodies of iconic Hollywood action heroes, namely "[[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnnie Frankenfurter]]", "[[Sylvester Stallone|Sammy Stallion]]" and "[[Clint Eastwood|Flint Westwood]]", as controllable infantry units complete with (campy) voice impressions of the respective actors. While EA and/or Westwood could have easily cited Fair Use per ''Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'' which set precedent for commercial parodies of existing works or people, they instead played it safe and disabled the actors' voices in patch 1.001, replacing them instead with a generic GI voice set. Patching the game to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTgtrOdMe40 restore] the excised voices is trivial though. |
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* Ditto with ''[[The Revenge of Shinobi]]'', which has seen [https://tcrf.net/The_Revenge_of_Shinobi_(Genesis) five revisions] due to copyright concerns (as Japan at the time had somewhat lax copyright laws). Like ''Yuri's Revenge'' above, ''Shinobi'' had cameos from a number of pop culture icons, namely Rambo, the Terminator, Spider-Man and Godzilla, as well as that of actor Sonny Chiba. Spider-Man was made official in REV02 when Sega obtained the video game rights to the superhero franchise, though Spidey had to be recoloured to a pink spandex in the Virtual Console release. |
* Ditto with ''[[The Revenge of Shinobi]]'', which has seen [https://tcrf.net/The_Revenge_of_Shinobi_(Genesis) five revisions] due to copyright concerns (as Japan at the time had somewhat lax copyright laws). Like ''Yuri's Revenge'' above, ''Shinobi'' had cameos from a number of pop culture icons, namely Rambo, the Terminator, Spider-Man and Godzilla, as well as that of actor Sonny Chiba. Spider-Man was made official in REV02 when Sega obtained the video game rights to the superhero franchise, though Spidey had to be recoloured to a pink spandex in the Virtual Console release. |
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* [[Take Two Interactive]] became notorious for this in the late 2010s to early 2020s when they filed cease-and-desist orders left and right against several popular ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' modifications, the most recent of which was re3 and reVC, a reverse-engineered source code recreation of ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'' respectively. Take Two asserted that the programmers "are well aware that they do not possess the right to copy, adapt, or distribute derivative GTA source code, or the audiovisual elements of the games, and that doing so constitutes copyright infringement" and that the project caused "irreparable harm" to the company. |
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== Web Comics == |
== Web Comics == |
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