While it is nice to know I can definitely buy a chip that encodes a video and use that in a further product (it got a bit hazy with some communications standards a couple of years back), and other such things where a country is silly enough to have software patents, and likewise I am happy to see what would be known as core charges in automotive circles have some clarification. I am not sure what relevance it has to some of the things mentioned in the OP though.
I read the source as well. Definitely a patent affair. Everything I have seen for let's plays and the like have been copyright and trademark related*, and terms of service that spring from each of those. I doubt a judge/court would rush to make an equivalent ruling or use it as a base without serious further consideration either -- with the ways patents are supposed to work, and work in practice, this sort of thing I can see being a good move to prevent stifling of innovation, for copyright and especially trademark I am not sold as is.
For games the best I can see is those that make third party modded controllers are clear from the patent angle, should be easy enough to dodge basic trademarks (don't use the name/imply authorisation), don't know what would go for colours if there is a design patent/industrial design right thing involved and I can't especially see a copyright angle. DMCA I don't know and any "cheating" is an end user problem.
*edit I tell a lie. I saw that world of tanks thing a few weeks back which might actually fall under some kind of contract law, or at least be heading there. Still not a patent thing though.
I read the source as well. Definitely a patent affair. Everything I have seen for let's plays and the like have been copyright and trademark related*, and terms of service that spring from each of those. I doubt a judge/court would rush to make an equivalent ruling or use it as a base without serious further consideration either -- with the ways patents are supposed to work, and work in practice, this sort of thing I can see being a good move to prevent stifling of innovation, for copyright and especially trademark I am not sold as is.
For games the best I can see is those that make third party modded controllers are clear from the patent angle, should be easy enough to dodge basic trademarks (don't use the name/imply authorisation), don't know what would go for colours if there is a design patent/industrial design right thing involved and I can't especially see a copyright angle. DMCA I don't know and any "cheating" is an end user problem.
*edit I tell a lie. I saw that world of tanks thing a few weeks back which might actually fall under some kind of contract law, or at least be heading there. Still not a patent thing though.
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