Company Take-Two Interactive , which belonses with games GTA III and GTA Vice City Intellectual property, filed judicial Suit against project developers re3 , developing compatible resource levels clone GTA III and GTA VC Games, created by reverse engineering of original games. Take-Two Interactive requires the respondent to stop the dissemination of the source texts of the RE3 project and all associated materials, as well as provide a report on all product loads that violate the company’s intellectual property and pay compensation that covers losses from copyright violation.
For Project Re3 Judicial claim – the worst of the event development scenarios after unlocking their repository on GitHub. In February, Take-Two Interactive has achieved the repository and 232 form of the RE3 project from GitHub through sending complaints about the violation of the US Copyright Act into the DMCA (DMCA). The developers did not agree with the arguments of Take-Two Interactive and filed a counter-claim, after which Github removed the blocking. The filing of the counter claim was associated with the risk associated with having exhausted the possibilities for the peaceful settlement of the conflict Take-Two Interactive may escape the trial in court.
Re3 developers believe that the code created by them is either not subject to legislation that determines the right to intellectual property or refers to the category of conscientious use (Fair Use), which allows the creation of compatible functional analogs, as the project develops on the basis of reverse engineering and Only the source texts created by the project participants are posted in the repository. Object files based on the recreation of the functionality of the Games, not placed in the repository.