minus-squareemb@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•It is copyright infringement when a list of public domain characters from a video game is used in another?linkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-213 days agoNot a lawyer, not even close, but I’d be a little weary of using the exact same list. A list of things with no creativity involved won’t fall under copyright, but the argument would be that they exercised creativity in curating a list of those specific figures. They could probably argue it and succeed. But since they’re pulling from the public domain, I doubt they’d go after anyone on it. Would definitely be a problem if someone bases new things on designs from that game. Derivative work from public domain work still gets copyrighted, right? linkfedilink
Not a lawyer, not even close, but I’d be a little weary of using the exact same list.
A list of things with no creativity involved won’t fall under copyright, but the argument would be that they exercised creativity in curating a list of those specific figures. They could probably argue it and succeed. But since they’re pulling from the public domain, I doubt they’d go after anyone on it.
Would definitely be a problem if someone bases new things on designs from that game. Derivative work from public domain work still gets copyrighted, right?