Take-Two dismisses lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto modders
Take-Two Interactive has dismissed a lawsuit(opens in new tab) filed in 2021 against Grand Theft Auto modders over the reverse-engineered ports of Grand Theft Auto 3 and GTA: Vice City.
The projects, known as re3 and reVC, were essentially pre-Definitive Edition(opens in new tab) updates aimed at getting the older GTA games running properly on modern hardware, with some bug fixes and new features like widescreen support. Take-Two originally had them removed from Github using a DMCA takedown notice, but they were restored after a counter-claim by the developers. Take-Two responded to that maneuver with a copyright infringement lawsuit, saying the mod makers «sought unlawfully to copy, adapt, and distribute to the public infringing source code» to Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City.
The lawsuit noted not only the allegedly infringing nature of the mods themselves, but also the actions that the named modders took to get around the DMCA takedown request: «In at least three separate instances between April and June of 2021, Defendants Orçunus, Morra, and Graber submitted sworn counter notifications to GitHub claiming the takedown of the repositories was mistaken or otherwise not legitimate. Take-Two is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that these counter notifications were made in bad faith, and knowingly and deliberately misrepresented to GitHub the contents of the re3 GitHub Repositories.»
Not much happened after that, according to TorrentFreak(opens in new tab), until December 2022, when both parties requested that materials in the discovery portion of the lawsuit be exempted from public disclosure because they were likely to contain confidential or proprietary information. Word of a potential settlement
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