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Tecmo Wins Naked Kasumi Case

Posted by Zonk on from the such-an-odd-name-for-a-case dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Japanese supreme court has upheld a ruling that software company West Side's 'naked Kasumi hack' for the PS2 version of Dead Or Alive 2 violates Tecmo's copyrights. West Side has been ordered to pay around 2 million yen in damages."

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  1. Copyrights by Taulin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Basically, anything that changes the original form of a 'piece' is considered violation of copyright. I have even read a case where a school dressed up a statue and the artist sued the school and won. That being said, I need to figure out where to get this hack.

  2. Gameshark by RotJ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this ruling mean that everybody's now free to sue Gameshark for violating their copyrights?

    1. Re:Gameshark by WiredOni · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Not in the US, since game genie and similar cheat devices have been ruled legal.

      Don't have any clue about how this will affect Japan, since these cheat devices do have other purposes then making characters nude. Hopefully the ruling won't go too far as to ban or severely limit such devices.

  3. parody law? by lawngnome · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there not a parody law in japan? I understand that certain factors determine if it is infact a parody, such as booble.com using googles trademark to make money in a deceptive way.