Modders once again have access to some of the reverse-engineered GTA 3 and Vice City code thanks to a counter-DMCA. Earlier this year, a group of creators managed to successfully reverse-engineer GTA ...

Regarding "since the code may be functionally identical, but not exactly identical, they hold no claim to the code", I guess the point is that it's a derived work of the copyrighted binaries. I mean ...

Grand Theft Auto Inside the GTA mod that was so well-written its creators axed it to make their own game—and then returned to finish the job due to public demand Grand Theft Auto Rockstar animator ...