A landmark ruling and a reframed headline:
“OpenAI lost a copyright case in Germany yesterday”
To: “Victory for Content Producers.”
“Judge Elke Schwager “if you want to build something and need components, then you purchase them. Do not use the property of others."
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16.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Can't believe that this is happening. The US Court is powerless and Valve's Lawyers have completely wasted - not just my time - but the time of a US Federal Court with a "frivolous defense" that was dead on arrival. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been WASTED including US tax payer dollars!
14.11.2025 21:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Can't believe that this is happening. The US Court is powerless and Valve's Lawyers have completely wasted - not just my time - but the time of a US Federal Court with a "frivolous defense" that was dead on arrival. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been WASTED including US tax payer dollars!
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YouTube video by Trevor Baylis
IronSky 2012Berlinale RedCarpetPremiere2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP89...
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YouTube video by Trevor Baylis
BerlinPressCon Extract CGI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhKx...
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YouTube video by Trevor Baylis
IronSkyOfficial Berlin 11Feb2012 TimoTero
(3)...Elokuva on julkaistu helmikuussa. (MAO302/18).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIir...
14.11.2025 17:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It going to get exponentially "air pirates" and they have no idea what they are doing.
13.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's been a MASSIVE waste of court resources and Valve's lawyers may get launched to the Dark Side of the Moon themselves by the Judge's boot!
Go easy on them Judge but teach them a lesson. I'm actually a forgiving kind of chap in my own way. 🙂
12.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it still has to look for the 'authorship issue' subject matter from the place the work was "first published". And like a person's date and place of birth - there is only one date and place of first publication (subject to a 30 window for simultaneous publication (not applicable here)).
12.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Never the less, Valve should have known they shouldn't be misleading the Judge on "choice of law" because subject matter jurisdiction isn't waiveable and although the US court has it's own ability to hear a foreign case for lex loci protectionis (Berne Con Article 5(2))...
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I also filed a Notice of Reliance on Foreign law and gave them the German Copyright Act. The Court seem to accidentally strike it as "premature" because we hadn't had a Status Report which is also one of the first things to do so, even I messed up that a bit due to not quite knowing the process.
12.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I wonder if I can just write "Ooooof!" on my next reply brief & leave it as that. ALL of the Judges previous orders related to the question of authorship have to be VOIDED. The first thing the court needed was to determine "choice of law" which I tried to help with by mentioning it in my pleadings!
12.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Valve essentially got a Federal Court Judge to apply Comity and Collateral estoppel - to a "Hollywood Reporter article" by the look of it! :)
11.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Valve essentially got a Federal Court Judge to apply Comity and Collateral estoppel - to a "Hollywood Reporter article" by the look of it! :)
11.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You may actually be one of the few people I know to grasp what has happened! :)
The average layperson won't get why lack of subject matter jurisdiction is so relevant.
11.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indeed. Hope, Faith and of course Charity, and all that. ;)
11.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Trevor Baylis
IronSky 2012Berlinale RedCarpetPremiere2012
"First published" in BERLIN - 11th February 2012. Not in Finland until after 30 days later. (Berne Con. articles 3-5)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP89...
11.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It means US ruling is null and void too
11.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Amend Judgment – #104 in Baylis v. Valve Corporation (W.D. Wash., 2:23-cv-01653) – CourtListener.com
Amend Judgment
My Rule 59 motion explains. I filed a Notice to 9th Circ. too but Judges hands are tied - Finland NEVER had "Subject Matter Jurisdiction"
Doesn't matter even if the Rule 59 is denied. The judge has no power. There is lack of Finnish subject matter jurisdiction
www.courtlistener.com/docket/67927...
11.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
It means, motion for summary judgement on Comity and Collateral estoppel is essentially null and void too. So there's a pending Rule 59(e) which Valve tried to get out of answering, and the Judge just told them to respond.
There's nothing Valve can say. They LIED about "subject mater jurisdiction".
11.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We are not quite done- almost. The judge granted Valve motion for summary judgement on Comity and Collateral estoppel to Finnish Ruling MAO302/18 - and then "plot twist" Finland NEVER had "subject matter jurisdiction". MAO302/18 has ALWAYS been null and void. Valve never read MAO302/18 it seems.
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:)
11.11.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
For all you AI advocates out there. Listen to your Machine God! "Deus Ex Machina baby!"
10.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's happening. ;) There is no argument Valve can have against the Finnish Rulings lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
10.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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