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Originally Posted by shovelquest
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Lorman Warcraft came out of a deal that fell through with games workshop, cloning Dune II with blizzard.
Dota was a mod of Warcraft III.
League of Legends was a Chinese knock-off of Dota.
Gamers rejoiced.
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Right, but Warcraft didn't copy any Warhammer IP: they made their own world (that just happened to have humans and orcs fighting).
DotA wasn't a "mod", it was a custom map ... but again, when they stopped being a custom map and became a real game, they copied zero IP form Warcraft, and made all their own art, characters, etc.
And LoL never copied anything from DotA except the gameplay. But again, you can't copyright gameplay, and something like "five players, three lanes" isn't patentable.
So you have lots of games
influenced by each other, and
derived from each other ... but none (except THJ) copied any IP of the other.