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Licensing & IP
Stories about intellectual property in games: licensing deals, brand collaborations, copyright and how game worlds are protected and extended. Each item links to its original source.
Valve lets the market decide on AI
At Steam Indie Connect in South Korea (also Oct 27), indie developers told Valve's Tom Giardino and Marc Wilkinson they're worried about AI "slop" and people threatening to clone their games. Valve said it won't tell…
Anthropic Steers Claude Code Away From Recreating Existing Games
Anthropic confirmed it added guidance telling Claude Code not to rebuild a specific existing game, citing its usage policy on intellectual property. Original games, genre games and games built from a user's own designs and assets remain allowed.