Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports,
Civil Rights,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
May 22, 2018
Video game cheat leads to copyright infringement suit
Does using cheating software in a video game create an unauthorized “derivative work”?
Dan D. Nabel
Principal Counsel
Riot Games
Dan also teaches Video Game Law at USC Gould. His new book, "Video Game Law in a Nutshell," will be available in July 2018 from West Academic."
As I'm writing this article, 266,648 people on Twitch.tv are watching "Fortnite," a video game published by Epic Games. Not playing, mind you. Watching. Of those people, 121,042 people are watching a single, professional streamer named "Ninja," who comments on the game as he plays. Ninja mostly plays "Fortnite Battle Royale," a free-to-play game mode in "Fortnite" where 100 players drop from a flying "battle bus" onto an island, scavenge for gear, build structures, an...
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