Quote Originally Posted by Wolf
Bolivar: I don't know man, there is still always a chance. At least some of the big names like Masato Kato and Yasunori Mitsuda are still very interested in the franchise, so I could see SE some time down the road giving this game a 3D remake, though it will be more like the DS remakes than say something on a major console tech level. I mean they ported to the DS and iOS so its not like SE has completely abandoned it.
I know man, I'm just so skeptical of SE these days that I feel it's best to kill any optimism I have deep down inside...

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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..
As VeloZer0 and I pointed out in our posts, there's an array of defenses that can be raised, the biggest of which is Fair Use. Like so much of the law, it all comes down to "is it reasonable or not," and a teenager posting a fanfic on his deviantart profile is obviously fair, and there's a few factors that you use to back it up (whether or not it's commercial, how much and what it took, whether it's 'transformative' or not). Plus the remedy you're looking for when you sue someone from copyright infringment is damages, getting paid a ton of money for whatever that person did. If they didn't profit off of it, there's no money to be made and what's the point of spending money on lawyers for that?