Quote Originally Posted by black orb View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Orb, them attributing the trademark to Square has nothing to do with copyright. All you have to do to infringe someone's copyright is to actually copy it. Or distribute it, reproduce it, publicly display or perform it. The big one, though is preparing derivative works, essentially making sequels or spinoffs. That's the big issue here, as only SE has the exclusive right to do that.
>>> I guess all the millions of fanarts, fanfics, doujin, etc out there would be copyright infringment too. But no company seems to make a big deal of it.

Fishy..
Largely because its not worth the hassle of going after each person and many companies often see this as free advertisement. SE shut down the remake project but as we can all see the "Tribute Video" is alive and well.

Honestly Copyright Law is a bit tricky due to the language used in the laws and also because many of them were written without proper foresight into how the Internet and technology would change things. I mean the NET Act was intended to allow film and music companies to criminally prosecute peer to peer websites like Napster back in the day, but due to the ambiguous language a company could theoretically press criminal charges against more innocent fan works. They don't because its a waste of money, often its not hurting anyone, and it looks bad when a company tries to sue a twelve year old for drawing fanart and selling it for a dollar on the school playground.

This is a fun video to explain it...