172
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
172 points (100.0% liked)
Games
21344 readers
114 users here now
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
Rules
- No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia. Don't care if it's ironic don't post comments or content like that here.
- Mark spoilers
- No bad mouthing sonic games here
- No gamers allowed
- No squabbling or petty arguments here. Remember to disengage and respect others choice to do so when an argument gets too much
- Anti-Edelgard von Hresvelg trolling will result in an immediate ban from c/games and submitted to the site administrators for review.
- Can't read Colon Syntax Emoji? :skill-issue:
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
The best way to think about China's copyright system is that it works more like western trademarks.
If you design a better mousetrap, everyone should just start using and making those better mousetraps. But you still can't put Mickey Mouse on your mousetrap.
Everyone should benefit from your improvement to quality of life without you having a monopoly on good mousetraps. But if you write a book about how to improve common objects like mousetraps, you should be allowed to sell that book without the fear that every other book printer on earth is going to distribute copies of your book.
At least in their video games though, improved mouse traps (good games) seem rare. Most of it seems to be old mousetraps barely tweaked.
Then again, I could just not buy the old mousetraps, so no harm is being done, I guess. I just wish more improved mousetraps came from China.