Reports last month, which matched what VGC had heard from its own sources, stated that Rockstar is preparing to release remastered versions of GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas on all modern systems, including the Switch. Accordingly, defendants have infringed Take-Two’s exclusive rights under copyright”. “Take-Two has never authorized or given consent to defendants to use their copyrighted works in the manner complained of herein. “By copying, adapting, and distributing source code and other content related to the games, defendants have deliberately and intentionally infringed Take-Two’s protectable expression,” the company argues. The suit claims that the project is causing “irreparable harm to Take-Two” and that the programmers have “have appropriated a market that belongs to Take-Two (namely, the market for modified or handheld versions of the games), and enabled countless others to now create their own unauthorised, derivative versions of the games”. Those efforts took more than two years and so far Nintendo has not taken legal action against its creators.ĭespite this, Take-Two is now suing the programmers who worked on the GTA project, claiming they “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”.Īccording to the suit, Take-Two tried to remove the re3 project from GitHub, but three of the programmers “knowingly filed bad faith counter-notifications that materially misrepresented the legality of their content, apparently claiming that because they allegedly ‘reverse engineered’ the Games’ source code, they somehow cannot be liable for copyright infringement.”
Recently, a similar fan effort was able to fully reverse engineer Super Mario 64 and port it to PC and other platforms. Projects like re3’s also contain no actual Rockstar-created assets such as music, dialogue and imagery, so players need to own a copy of GTA III to build their own port using the reverse-engineered code.
Many reverse-engineering teams believe their work is technically made legal because they do not use leaked source code and instead recreate the original games from scratch using modern coding languages.
0 kommentar(er)
