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Question for people who are lawyers or lawyer adjacent: would you be able to reasonable argue against this in court, assuming you do not use any Cyberpunk assets or content directly, and instead just offer a dll mod of the game that writes memory at specific addresses and modifies code (i'm assuming that's what this mod is doing)? To me, if you're not using any of the actual game's content CDPR can't reasonably claim that you're infringing on their copyright, but ianal.


I suspect this is not a copyright issue, but rather a ToS issue.


In the 9th circuit you would have to get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Star_v._FormGen_Inc. overruled.


There are a handful of relevant fair use cases, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin....


CDPR is a Polish company though, so how is US law relevant?


DMCA is US law, that's how.


Hmm I'd say their takedown has no value then?

Unless they have a business presence in the US and sent it from there.


They have a business presence in the US, and sent it there.


The takedown is (also ? first and foremost ??)'against' Patreon, a USA company.


Because they invoked DMCA?




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