You should always check with the IP owner first aside… this does seem like an uncharacteristic move from valve. Like… black mesa existed as a mod for a while… crickets. They remade it in a new engine… crickets. They put it on sale on steam… and valve endorsed it. afaik they never asked permission… but even if they did it’s weird to have a team doing a fully 3rd party remake of a core game and being fully endorsed by the company.
But here you have someone well known, doing a skin essentially… that only works on the valve product… and valve has issue with THAT? odd.
The weirdest part to me is that this wasn’t a surprise. As soon as valve announced the steam machine it seemed the same day this was announced along with it. They knew it was coming. Why not say something then?
How do you know they were aware of it?
I mean how could they not be? It was being shared literally everywhere previously as soon as it was announced. Someone from Valve had to have seen it, especially when they found it immediately upon launch and shut it down almost instantly. It was obviously on their radar
I didn’t know about it, so no, it wasn’t shared literally everywhere.
Yeah but it’s also not your product and your IP to monitor. That’s quite literally someone’s job there
Fair enough.
I didn’t realize you had to get permission to make cases, so all those third party iphone cases have to have an agreement with apple?
Yes, if they sport an Apple logo or any other IP not properly licensed.
The exterior dimensions of a smartphone are not IP.
