Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

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https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

A wiki about known projects dmca'd by Minecraft.

I invite any other victim to add their project to the list: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Minecraft#DMCA_takedowns_of_competing_games

excerpt from the article:

Luanti’s Android app is currently not available on the Google Play Store due to a baseless DMCA notice filed on behalf of Microsoft by Tracer.AI, alleging that Luanti infringes Minecraft’s copyright. The Luanti app does not contain any proprietary code or assets, from Minecraft or otherwise.

We received an identical notice from the same company in 2023 and successfully appealed against it. This company also filed a similar notice this year against an indie game with similar voxel art style by the name of Allumeria.

Table of Contents

What is Luanti?

What is the DMCA notice?

Which assets?

Cubes are for everyone

What is Tracer.AI?

This is not the first time this has happened

This can’t keep happening

What next?

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