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Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself (automaton-media.com)

submitted 6 days ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Kind of a funny thing, but from what I see, totally understandable. The third party, Valve in this case, doesn't actually know who created what, just that one piece of media has stuff from a different, unrelated piece of media which can cause lawsuits if stolen. I think. Idk, IANAL, and I'm also not a lawyer.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 31 points 6 days ago

Plus, at the end, the only thing that Valve required was a statement that the two named entities are, in fact, both DBAs for one particular person, signed by that person.

Funny headlines, but 100% normal IP CYA behavior.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Hey what are you doing this weekend I have an idea

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it the whole IANAL thing? Because thats not what you think it means...

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But they said IANAL and also I'm not a lawyer. So it has to be what I think it is.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it has to be!

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

And this is financial advice, too!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah, if it starts happening a lot they should consider some sort of enhancement to their internal customer database and/or front end, but this just seems like some annoying bureaucracy in the name of scalability that was bypassed with a fairly silly but simple workaround.