There should be a serious consequence for false DMCA claims. There has to be a deterrent. YouTube is already completely fucked by UMG. I wanna see them go out of business because of all their false claims.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Microsoft owns cubes and birches, didn't you know?
It does not matter that this is a Minecraft clone, there are hundreds of them and mojang has always been fine with them.
Minecraft itself is inspired and started as a clone of infiniminer.
The general rule has always been “as long as it does not use assets or code made by mojang” its fine and they wont care or sue.
Unless this tree is using a stolen texture from the game there is nothing that makes this more illegal then the thousands of cloned already out there.
Of course a doubt microsoft would respect such, they shown their hands when they presumed ownership over the now open sourced end poem.
They have an AI tool that scrapes everything on the Internet until it finds copyright violations. The entire and only job of humans in this process is to press the big "C&D" button, so the barrier is just much too low, allowing for stuff like this to happen accidentally.
Generally in copyright law, it's applied when a lay person can or does misconstrue the new product for the old one.
Like if you look at something and think it's the other one, that is copyright infringing.
I have no doubt that in law and the wealth of microsoft to argue in court that could indeed do that.
But my point is that there was an established public agreement with mojang. It could be raised as a legal defence that you where given permission pre-microsoft.
And also that this law is dumb as fuck.
Here is a screenshot of infiniminer (2009)
You could show that to people and they would say it looks like minecraft,
If infiniminer has sued during the minecraft browser version days it would never even have gotten the chance to become what it is now.
Oh yeah, for sure, by no means was what I said in dissent in any way to what you said. More of an aside or tidbit.
The fact that they had an... established public agreement is just even more messed up when companies arbitrarily decide "nope, we're gonna fuck you in the ass suddenly now". Sometimes, companies even have explicit public agreements to or not do stuff. So when this type of thing happens against previous understanding for said company's self interest and they just happen to have more money than you do to back up what may even be a court case in your favor, but it would otherwise bankrupt you, it really paints a certain picture.
It's the Microslop way.
Fuck copyright and patent laws and the morons/scumbags who support them.
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Microsoft, evidently related to Minecraft
Bruh, they've owned it for like a decade at this point. Even if someone was wholly unaware of Minecraft, it would be one of the first things to come up on a cursory search of the game.
The DMCA claim was evidently related to the Minecraft IP. It's not suggesting that Minecraft is unrelated to Microsoft.
I'd like to know what Steam has to say on the matter. They are usually one of the more reasonable software companies.
all because of a screenshot of birch trees
Worth noting, that image was given as an example of how the game looks similar to Minecraft. It was not the basis of the complaint. Microsoft also claimed the gameplay is stolen as well, according to Valve. So it's definitely not about the trees themselves.
This Reddit post has the actual email from Valve to the dev.
I think this is definitely not a fight Microsoft can win (without a war of attrition I mean), and they seem to agree because they revoked the complaint by now. But there's other blocks not featured on this image that would make a much stronger case imo. Stone bricks and planks look identical imo and definitely can be made unique looking if the dev wanted to.
Gameplay can be copied just fine, anyway. In fact, most games are just copying the gameplay of something else (not least of which are the THOUSANDS of Minecraft clones that play the same, but have their own aesthetic). This game looks exactly like Minecraft, tho, and it could very easily be confused for Minecraft. That is going to be more damning for the dev than the mechanics.
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Wait until they figure out hytale released a similar looking game
That's what they're doing here. They can go after a smaller studio gain precedent then go after the larger Giants like hytail which is owned by riot. They need some legal ground first to do that.
riot bought hytale but then sold it, it's no longer theirs
this is almost certainly an ai tool run amok, not a deliberate attempt to stomp on the little guy.
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Sniff It smells like birch up in here.
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