Is it legal for a University to assign trademarked games of others to its students for programming?
Dr. Tom Van Laerhoven of Hasselt University, Belgium, gave student Rutger Bevers my (copyrighted and trademarked) award-winning game Hijara to program. When asked, Laerhoven said, "Yes, we gave him the assignment to find a good AI for this game (Hijara). We take existing games because it's easier than inventing fake ones. Hijara was also in the assignment list last year. I looked at your game list, as far as I can tell, most of them would be suitable. I see no problem with this." As my permission was neither asked nor granted, I believe I am a victim of trademark and copyright infringement by Hasselt University. http://bit.ly/hijara
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Well, then you can sue for damages, can’t you? What, no damages? Then what are you complaining about? Did not the university or the professor using his budget buy the game outright? As long as neither he, himself, nor the person he gave it to, republishes it in any way, no-one is being harmed.
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