Valve then forwarded us the statement from Nintendo’s lawyers, and told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam.
We all know Nintendo is a bitch and there’s nothing illegal in emulators, but Valve’s stance looks reasonable to me, it would be serious damage to Steam if they were involved in legal litigation.
Isn’t that part of why DMCA is how it is? For a channel/host of big enough size it’s implausible that they check everything for infringement, so they must respond to reports, the difference here is Valve pre-empting it for something likely to stir the pot. Valve aren’t obligated to host anyone IIRC and I don’t see any other sizeable PC sub-platforms rushing to fill the gap
Correct. Valve could have let them release it and let Nintendo go through the DMCA process. As long as Valve follows the process, they would not be the subject of any litigation.
In terms of user content this would be correct. However when it comes to games on the platform valve does do curation to ensure games run etc. I don’t know if it has been tested, but that curation could exclude them from the protection. If that was the case they could be directly sued for copyright infringement.
We all know Nintendo is a bitch and there’s nothing illegal in emulators, but Valve’s stance looks reasonable to me, it would be serious damage to Steam if they were involved in
legallitigation.Yep, I can understand that they don’t want to fight someone else’s fight.
Isn’t that part of why DMCA is how it is? For a channel/host of big enough size it’s implausible that they check everything for infringement, so they must respond to reports, the difference here is Valve pre-empting it for something likely to stir the pot. Valve aren’t obligated to host anyone IIRC and I don’t see any other sizeable PC sub-platforms rushing to fill the gap
Correct. Valve could have let them release it and let Nintendo go through the DMCA process. As long as Valve follows the process, they would not be the subject of any litigation.
They decided to break the process.
In terms of user content this would be correct. However when it comes to games on the platform valve does do curation to ensure games run etc. I don’t know if it has been tested, but that curation could exclude them from the protection. If that was the case they could be directly sued for copyright infringement.
Lol “legal litigation” sounds like double secret probation to me, but I agree with you.
Haha :D English is not my first language, if the wording is not correct or there’s a better way of saying it, I welcome any correction :)
All litigation is legal, so you can just say “litigation”.
Oh didn’t know that, thanks!
No worries! You’re all good:)