EA filed an open source 'SimCity 2000' remake project for DMCA violation

" SimCity 2000 ", the second work of SimCity series deployed for various game hard such as Super Nintendo / Sega Saturn · PlayStation · NINTENDO 64, has attracted many fans for more than 20 years since it appeared in 1993 It is a popular game. A person who became a prisoner of such Sim City 2000 was developing an open source project to create a remake of Sim City 2000 on GitHub, but a major game publisher's Electronic Arts (EA) We are applying for deletion of project as owned artwork is being used ".

EA Takes Down 'Open Source' SimCity 2000 Remake - TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/ea-takes-down-open-source-simcity-2000-remake-180730/

In the United States, SimCity 2000, which was first released for Mac in 1993, is a sequel to " Sim City ", the first work of SimCity series, and it has become the first series of "series to express the city" in the series. Since its appearance, it has been deployed for various game hard such as Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, NINTENDO 64, and many other fans were captivated around the world.

SimCity 2000 which has been around for a quarter of a century has passed, but the nostalgic gamers who enjoyed the game at the time of the release still love the same work from the bottom of my heart, with a focus on game developer Nicholas Ochoa The project to remake using Electron Framework has started.

The project name was "OpenSC 2K", since it was released on GitHub in January 2018, it attracted attention in the bulletin board site Reddit and Hacker News .

OpenSC2K - Initial Release - Open source SimCity 2000 remake (WIP): SimCity

However, because the data used for remake included items owned by Electronic Arts, the company applied to GitHub for the deletion of the project due to the violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the article At the time of creation, the OpenSC 2K repository can not be accessed.

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Electronic Arts insists that "the game assets of SimCity 2000 are infringed" in the application for deletion, and that the original Sim City 2000 is sold for about 600 yen on Origin of the game selling site Also pointed out.

Originally OpenSC 2K was not trying to remake SimCity 2000 completely original, it means that assets that Electronic Arts should not have publicly disclosed are used. "The current audiovisual output of the repository is content that infringes the copyright of Electronic Arts.As long as these are still there," modification other than deletion "is insufficient as a method to cope with DMCA infringement, Electronic Arts marks the background of the deletion application.

Also, as some people pointed out copyright violation when OpenSC 2K started, TorrentFreak wrote that the deletion application was done is not a big surprise. Also, developers themselves are worried about copyright violations, and he seems to be replacing the original artwork with open source content using conversion tools in the beginning of the project. However, because there were code changes and other priorities, it seems that the artwork conversion has not been done yet and the repository has been temporarily closed.

Mr. Ochoa says "We did not get in touch with electronic arts or GitHub prior to applying for deletion," but after deletion of the repository it is necessary to delete copyrighted content I promise. In addition, Mr. Ochoa seems to be firmly recognizing graphic data and DAT files copyrighted by Electronic Arts, he says he is not planning to use it in an actual game. In addition, he commented, "If you contact me at the beginning, I deleted that content."

So, at the time of writing the article is not accessible to the OpenSC 2K repository, but there is a movie published to advertise OpenSC 2K on YouTube, you can watch from the following .

OpenSC2K - Open source SimCity 2000 remake - YouTube