Agreed. Especially since he built the engine from scratch if I remember correctly. I would think it’d be legal under fair use? But I’ve heard of so many fan games going under from cease and desists. Maybe they just don’t want to pay the legal fees to fight it? Especially if they’re not making a profit from it.
Fair use is a much more specific and narrow thing than most people think, and there’s absolutely zero way this would be fair use. Not making money with it would definitely strengthen a fair use claim, but that’s not the only factor. The other big one is whether it’s transformative, and I can’t see how remaking anything can be considered transformative.
For sure they might try to send a c&d, but it wouldn’t have any legal standing. Whether you have the funds to fight frivolous bullshit like that is one thing, but you can’t get a c&d in the first place if you never put your art out. Even then, all you’d have to do is stop distributing it yourself, but at least it’d be out there
Agreed. Especially since he built the engine from scratch if I remember correctly. I would think it’d be legal under fair use? But I’ve heard of so many fan games going under from cease and desists. Maybe they just don’t want to pay the legal fees to fight it? Especially if they’re not making a profit from it.
Fair use is a much more specific and narrow thing than most people think, and there’s absolutely zero way this would be fair use. Not making money with it would definitely strengthen a fair use claim, but that’s not the only factor. The other big one is whether it’s transformative, and I can’t see how remaking anything can be considered transformative.
For sure they might try to send a c&d, but it wouldn’t have any legal standing. Whether you have the funds to fight frivolous bullshit like that is one thing, but you can’t get a c&d in the first place if you never put your art out. Even then, all you’d have to do is stop distributing it yourself, but at least it’d be out there
That’s why I think the creator might be hoping to get paid for his work if he can get the publisher to re release it.
He can’t release it without being sued. But if it was leaked, he wouldn’t be responsible. They can only sue the torrents’ hosts and downloaders.