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YouTuber Law has created a video analysis of the recent Take-Two Interactive win against David Zipperer who created cheats for the online game Grand Theft Auto V. He goes into how cheats are a derivative product of the original copyrighted work; thus it is the same as creating a sequel to the original copyrighted work. He relates previous court rulings against derivative works to the Take Two Interactive case and then explains why commercializing a derivative of another company's copyrighted work is frowned upon by the courts.
We've seen many game developers suing individuals who develop software to cheat in their games. Most lawsuits against video game cheats settle quickly. Today, we have one lawsuit that the court has rules on. In a lawsuit by take two against a developer of cheat or grief software for gta v (grand theft auto 5), the court issued a preliminary injunction. In the process the court told us why is cheating in a video game considered copyright infringement.
We've seen many game developers suing individuals who develop software to cheat in their games. Most lawsuits against video game cheats settle quickly. Today, we have one lawsuit that the court has rules on. In a lawsuit by take two against a developer of cheat or grief software for gta v (grand theft auto 5), the court issued a preliminary injunction. In the process the court told us why is cheating in a video game considered copyright infringement.