Because of copyright issues, Ubisoft deleted the player's self-made "007 GoldenEye"

A YouTuber named Krollywood spent three years recreating every level in 007 GoldenEye using Far Cry 5's map editor.

Unfortunately, Ubisoft removed all levels from Far Cry 5 this week on the grounds of copyright infringement.

Krollywood said he was "very sad" and thought he might never be able to recover the levels again because "they've now been targeted":

I'm really sad, not for myself, not for the work I've done over the past three years, but because of the players who want to play this level, or even buy Far Cry just to play this level.

A Ubisoft representative responded:

Ubisoft was removed due to a claim for copyright infringement filed by the copyright holder and is currently unavailable. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect our users to do the same. This matter is related to the creators and rights holders of the map, and we don't have anything more to share at the moment.

Ubisoft did not respond to follow-up inquiries, and we do not know whether the copyright holder mentioned is MGM Pictures, the copyright holder of the original 007 GoldenEye.

The question of the copyright to the 007 GoldenEye game has been in turmoil. Most notably, rare, the developer of the original game, planned to remake the Xbox 360 version, but it was eventually canceled in 2008. Years later, Phil Spencer blamed the cancellation of the project on "challenging" copyright issues.

Source: kotaku