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The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever

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The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever

During the 1990s, the PC gaming industry experienced a unique era defined by "level packs," which were collections of maps for first-person shooters like Duke Nukem 3D and Quake. These products occupied an amorphous space between official e

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