Earlier this year fans reversed engineered the source code to Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
A week after the code went public on GitHub, Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, issued a DMCA takedown claiming that the reversed-engineered source code contained “copyrighted materials owned by Take-Two.†GitHub pulled the fan-derived code and all its related forks.
Theo explained in their counter-claim that the code didn’t, in fact, contain any original work created or owned by Take-Two Interactive, so it should not have been removed.
They filed their claim last month after Take-Two removed over 200 forks of the reversed source, all built off of the original reversed-engineered code.