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Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' (www.pcgamer.com)

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It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to hard disagree on NC.

If the original publisher decided to dump their IP, and someone else has a good enough idea to make money off of it, they absolutely should.

BY-SA gets you the same vibe and encourages the new IP to keep making new content and allows others to do the same.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I agree, if an IP is abandoned then someone else should be allowed to do something with it.

For this post I was talking about the game that was already made and distributed, not just the idea or characters.

I'll use Mario Kart 1 for example, if Nintendo doesn't sell that game anymore, then the game is made publicly available.

If the IP is still in use that A) doesn't exclude Mario Kart 1 form becoming available, B) doesn't allow competitors to sell modern Mario Kart games (trademark) and C) prevents someone from taking a 30 year old game and just reselling it on their store.

IPs are much more messy to handle, as it's less a final product and more of a concept. Creative rights should stay with the creative people not a publisher.

If Nintendo decides to drop Mario, but the actual creator of Mario still wants to work with a different publisher, they should be able to do that before the IP becomes freely available for anyone to take over.