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Old March 15th, 2009, 03:20 PM
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Default Re: So what is this new game Demigod?

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What copyright would they be infringing, anyway?

The characters don't look all that similar to anything else to me, and the gameplay seems to be quite a ways from any other commercial product.

(The Warcraft III map it's clearly based off is A) fan-created and B) a blatant rip-off of a rip-off in the first place, not to mention stolen if I remember my community drama. While the long-forgotten creator of the original Starcraft Aeon-of-Strife-style map might pop out of the woodworks and sue them, I somehow doubt it.)
I found these after a quick glance:

I looked at the so called demigods and found Kerrigan from Starcraft in string panties, the colossus from the Shadow of the Colossus, a german ubermensch with a colossal "snipercrossbow", a hydralisk from Starcraft, a chaos soldier from Warhammer... the list goes on and on.
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Old March 15th, 2009, 06:19 PM

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Default Re: So what is this new game Demigod?

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Above posters are hopefully joking as copyright infringement doesn't work that way.

Gameplay isn't protected by copyright law (though it might be protected by a patent).

Copyright infringement is the illegal reproduction or the derivative work created from an original work.
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Old March 15th, 2009, 07:37 PM
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Default Re: So what is this new game Demigod?

If they did not use the code, and they did not use the names AND likenesses (remember: these must be used together, and resemblance /= "likeness"), they did not infringe.
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