Claude refuses to replicate The Landlord's Game, public domain since 1904, calling its guardrails overly cautious
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-11-02
A dev shares a Claude conversation where the model refuses to recreate Lizzie Magie's 1904 The Landlord's Game (precursor to Monopoly, long in the public domain), offering only an original game in the same genre. The poster questions whether this refusal is intended behavior, sparking debate over overly cautious copyright guardrails.
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