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White House removes controversial video game after warning from gaming company
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style “Build the Wall” game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement.
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Tetris suggests White House 'Build the Wall' game infringes copyright
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White House removes controversial video game after warning from gaming company
The Tetris Company wants to be clear that it was not involved in the creation of the White House’s “Build the Wall” game — an obvious copy of the famous block-dropping title — in which players must prevent zombie-like foreigners from crossing the “southern border” into the United States.
The Tetris Company accused the Trump administration of copyright infringement over its spoof of the iconic video game, in which players are tasked with building a wall to keep out a “zombie border siege.”
The maker of Tetris criticized a new White House digital game that mimics its classic puzzle by having players build a wall to stop migrants from crossing the US border.
The Tetris Company appeared to warn the White House Friday that its new online arcade based on President Trump's policies may constitute copyright infringement. The site, launched Thursday, features games emulating the style of arcade classics.
The Tetris Company said it “was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’ and did not authorize or license the Tetris brand or intellectual property for the game.”
When politics borrows pop culture to sell policy, it inherits pop culture’s legal boundaries; a White House “Build the Wall” browser game that mirrors Tetris’s core play loop tests where copyright ends, “look and feel” begins, and how far government messaging can stray into imitation before it becom…
The arcade game launched last week has disappeared from the White House site after the Tetris Company criticized it and said it takes “copyright infringement very seriously.”
The White House has removed its “Build the Wall” game from its MAGA-themed online arcade after the Tetris co. warned about possible copyright infringement. The block game closely resembled mechanics used in Tetris, and has players stack blocks to build a barrier alongside the southern border to prev…
By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style “Build the Wall” game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement.
By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style “Build the Wall” game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement.
The White House has removed the “Build the Wall” game — a Tetris knockoff in which players were tasked with fortifying the southern U.S. border to keep out illegal immigrants — after the company that owns the rights to the popular title issued a statement saying that “we take copyright infringement …
The White House has quietly taken down a Tetris-themed video game in which users could construct a border wall using falling bricks that was similar to the […]
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