White House Game Sparks Tetris Copyright Fight
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White House Game Sparks Tetris Copyright Fight
When politics borrows pop culture to sell policy, it inherits pop culture’s legal boundaries; a White House “Build the Wall” browser game that mirrors Tetris’s core play loop tests where copyright ends, “look and feel” begins, and how far government messaging can stray into imitation before it becomes infringement. At a Glance Tetris publicly disclaimed involvement with the White House’s “Build the Wall” game and emphasized it “takes copyright …
The Tetris Company opposed Build the Wall on the White House website, where players need to build walls to protect the US from migrants. The game was published in a new White House Arcade section on the official White House website. Tetris developers stressed that they have nothing to do with the project and also stated that its message is contrary to values... The post The Trump administration displeased the creators of Tetris first appeared on…
The U.S. government under Donald Trump offers a Tetris clone on its website with Build the Wall. The rights holders of the original vehemently oppose the political capture and examine first legal steps. (Read more)
"We believe in the power of connection": Donald Trump Tetris parody game rouses the mildly worded wrath of the Tetris Company
Those terrible firebrands at the Tetris Company have publicly rebuked the US government for publishing a Tetris parody game that promotes the Trump administration's brutalising rhetoric about securing the border with Mexico. They've even hinted that they're prepared to sue over it. The parody game in question is called Build the Wall, and sees you stacking bricks along "the Southern border" in order to repel invading zombies. Unlike in regular T…
The White House has transformed part of its political communication into an arcade hall. Several retro mini-games feature the priorities of the Donald Trump administration, with mechanics very close to known classics. One of them, Build the Wall, ostensibly takes up Tetris's principle to ask the player ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App …
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