Lawsuit Defends World of Warcraft Strategy Guide from DMCA
March 29, 2006
Brian Kopp of Bronson Florida is selling The Ultimate World of Warcraft Leveling & Gold Guide and Blizzard isn’t happy about it. Blizzard forced Ebay to shut down his auctions claiming violation of DMCA.
Public Citizen is defending Kopp:
“Copyright laws are designed to promote creativity and innovation, not squelch it,” said Greg Beck, the Public Citizen attorney representing Kopp. “A video game is copyrightable just like a book, and just like a book you should be able to comment on it, create new works inspired by it, teach about it in classes, write newspaper articles about it and so on. It is this kind of innovation and open discussion that the copyright laws are supposed to foster. By claiming that mere publication of a how-to book about its game infringes its copyright, Blizzard has interpreted its intellectual property rights in a way that would prohibit legitimate commentary that is protected by the First Amendment.”
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In an Brian Kopp of Bronson Florida is selling
something is extra or missing there
this is very like how there are current patents on genes. how can you patent Diabetes??
I think blizzard shud be more creative, see its very simple, blizzard can just mod the game enough that his book has very small validity, thus forcing refunds as the book failed to do what it said it could do (give assistance with wow). and make their own. pay publicists to publish how his book was bad, and blizzards was good. (they do this all the time in software)
a law suit against him will only show how greedy blizzard is. think about it, its in the first amendment that he should be able to sell off his opinion.
i think brian kopp, shud advertise his book asap, sell as many copies as he can (dont over publish). and cash his chips into the bank, and get a new idea.
thanx
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woooooot!
I hear Brian Kopps Guide is decent but it’s a bit expensive.. hopefully he’ll lower his prices.
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