There’s a video game called Smite that has around 130 playable mythological figures. Can another game have the same list of figures (exclusively) or even a smaller list of figures with the same gods that are also used in Smite?
There’s a video game called Smite that has around 130 playable mythological figures. Can another game have the same list of figures (exclusively) or even a smaller list of figures with the same gods that are also used in Smite?
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?
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