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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.

* [[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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