But its not really about who is right or wrong. Its about if a single person in one building pitches an idea, works on it with a team in that same building, then goes to the head of the building who Dark And Darker Gold rejects the idea, who owns the idea?
Is it the buildings idea because it all happened under its roof, or the persons who had the idea, cultivated it, raised it, and perfected it, only to have it thrown in the trash?Ironmace has gone ahead and done it anyways, and it will be fascinating to see where it goes from here.
If you think that sounds like a silly question, you should know that in a lot of game dev contracts, the answer is the building owns it. It happened under the buildings roof, so the building gets to store it in the trash can, and if the person who had the idea wants to make it anyway, thats just kinda tough.
Its telling that Seung-ha says as far as we know when it comes to copyright, because the most powerful media forces tend to be able to bend the rules at will to continue to benefit from them, even if the only benefit is to stop others from making money with resources that werent going to be used anyway.
Its easy to have a knee-jerk reaction that Ironmace are Dark And Darker Gold for sale thieves or Nexxon are money-grubbing cheats, but at the moment itrsquos impossible to know either way. One thingrsquos for sure, though: this case could have further reaching consequences than just Dark and Darker.
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