Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself  - AUTOMATON WEST
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WIRED TOKYO 2007 developer Daikichi_EMP has announced a resolution of his IP violation predicament on Steam.
  • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    6 hours ago

    Kind of a funny thing, but from what I see, totally understandable. The third party, Valve in this case, doesn’t actually know who created what, just that one piece of media has stuff from a different, unrelated piece of media which can cause lawsuits if stolen. I think. Idk, IANAL, and I’m also not a lawyer.

    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      16·
      5 hours ago

      Plus, at the end, the only thing that Valve required was a statement that the two named entities are, in fact, both DBAs for one particular person, signed by that person.

      Funny headlines, but 100% normal IP CYA behavior.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Yeah, if it starts happening a lot they should consider some sort of enhancement to their internal customer database and/or front end, but this just seems like some annoying bureaucracy in the name of scalability that was bypassed with a fairly silly but simple workaround.