Ty Taylor has put together the GDCparties.com list for about eight years. It’s the kind of thing that people pass around or copy. But this year, he was surprised to find out that another company was allegedy copying the underlying code to the list and passing it off as its own.
In a post on LinkedIn, Taylor, who is vice president of Seattle Indies, accused Blueberry AI of not only copying the content of the parties on the list for GDC Festival of Gaming, but he also said Blueberry AI ” completely ripped the source directly and reskinned it slightly to match their website (likely simply using AI).”
“It’s my own website that I designed and wrote, powered by a Google Sheet that I’ve painstakingly curated, manually crawling for events about twice a day. Since adding the 2026 events in late January, it’s gotten 26,000 views from 12,700 unique people (about 42% of GDC registered attendees).”
Blueberry AI, in a now deleted LinkedIn post, said “we built something”, claiming to have made and curated GDCparties.com’s list almost exactly. Taylor said Blueberry AI also used bots to post it on places on the internet, using bots like this Reddit user. Based on comments on Taylor’s post on LinkedIn, Blueberry AI’s move has backfired.
“The noteworthy thing in all this is that the code they stole is directly referencing my spreadsheet for live updates,” Taylor said in a message to GamesBeat. “So, as I described in this LinkedIn post about this, I could easily add a couple hidden rows to the spreadsheet to make this display directly on their website, at the exact link these bots are posting all over the internet.”
Tom Buscaglia, an attorney for Taylor, issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request to Blueberry AI and its website host, Squarespace.
“It’s not the first time Blueberry AI has done something like this. Here’s a LinkedIn post where they’ve directly used someone’s art without authorization, with the CEO harassing the original creator in the comments,” Taylor said.
Blueberry AI denied that they copied Taylor’s code, as he noted as he was able to make content appear on Blueberry AI’s web site.
Taylor said his own list isn’t copied from elsewhere. It’s maybe 70% from event organizers using the “Add an event” button themselves (where he emails everyone who has ever submitted an event every year to remind them to do so).
“Otherwise, I do very regular searches for publicly listed events on Eventbrite, Meetup, Luma, and the GDC Affiliate page to collate them all into one spot, as well as digging through many Discords, chats, and email lists/subscriptions I’m in for things people share (which are okay to list publicly),” he said.
While Blueberry AI took down some of its initial links, Taylor said he has screenshots that 100% provable that they were using his source and his spreadsheet.
“Then Blueberry AI posted a LinkedIn post claiming the “Add Event” button “allowed anyone to submit events at any time” – it didn’t, this still used the link to my Google Form which does not automatically add to my main spreadsheet, it goes to a staging intake form where I can curate and modify events before I move them to the main one,” he said. “The reason that I was able to make text appear on their site is because I edited the main spreadsheet to add two hidden rows. It’s not ever viewable in ‘View mode’ but if you make a copy of the sheet, unhide rows 5 and 6, you can hover-over and see the text I’ve entered. I modified the code of GDCparties.com to not display these two events, and of course their copy didn’t.”
Then Taylor said after he noted this, the company is doubling down.
“They’ve relisted a modified version. They’re claiming ‘The list is compiled from multiple sources, such as Eventbrite, Luma, and other public listings’ (which is indeed how *I* created the list in the first place), but it is still a 1-to-1 copy of the GDCparties.com list,” Taylor said.
In that modified version, Blueberry AI said, “We’re continuing to review and improve the page to make sure it remains a helpful and respectful resource for the community.”
Taylor said of the continuing problem on Saturday, “This is provable, and here’s how: For every single event I’ve added, I’ve manually added to the [email protected] Google Calendar. Their site still contains an ‘Add to Google Calendar’ link for the events, and every single link on every event with a calendar entry links to the [email protected] calendar.”
In a response on LinkedIn, Blueberry AI said on Saturday:
If necessary, we are willing to participate in a proper legal, line-by-line comparison through the appropriate process.
We compiled and published a similar list last year, at a time when Ty did NOT have one, which clearly shows that we are fully capable of creating this ourselves.
First, on the core issue: we did not copy any code. The screenshots also reflect that what appears on the page is public event information.
Second, the event information itself was gathered by AI systems that automatically scanned the internet and compiled data from publicly available sources.
Third, our company has published similar GDC event listings on our website for multiple consecutive years. More than 1,040 visitors used the list we compiled last year alone, and the historical record is available below. We clearly have the experience and ability to build this ourselves.
From a technical standpoint, it was also straightforward to build using AI tools to gather public data and generate the website.
Simply put, we had no reason to intentionally copy anyone.
In a response on Taylor’s first LinkedIn post, Blueberry AI commented:
Our goal in publishing the GDC event list has always been to benefit the game development community and help developers easily discover events during GDC week.
For clarification, our company has published similar GDC event listings on our website for multiple consecutive years, and over 1,040 visitors used and benefited from the list we compiled last year alone.
Because these are public events, the list is compiled from multiple sources, such as Eventbrite, Luma, and other public listings, with the goal of making it as complete and helpful as possible for the community. If anyone felt offended, we apologize. We are also conducting a thorough internal review with the engineers involved in the project.
Our intention has always been to support the game community and provide useful resources, and we hope the focus can remain on helping developers make the most of GDC week. We would never want to cause any conflict or discomfort for anyone.
Updated 12:52 a.m. on 3/9/26
Ada Liu, CEO of Blueberry AI, sent the following messages to GamesBeat.
At this stage, we will not provide the actual server data to the media, as we are currently in the process of preparing for potential litigation.
In general, the event data was aggregated through several LLM tools that our team used.
As an example, GPT can generate a GDC event list from publicly available information. Even non-technical users can easily obtain similar lists through GPT, let alone engineers who work with different tools regularly.
GDCParties.com has repeatedly described itself as a free, public resource.
Until yesterday, GDCParties.com had no copyright notice and no Terms & Conditions of any kind. No restrictions. No warnings. Nothing.
The copyright notice now displayed on the site, reading “All rights reserved. Duplication prohibited.” was added today, after this dispute became public. We have archived records confirming the site carried no such notice before.
This matters, because it explains something every reader can verify right now: open ChatGPT, Claude, or any major AI system and ask for a GDC event list. GDCParties.com will appear in the results immediately, not because anyone targeted it, but because it was, by every measure, open and unrestricted public data on the internet.
You cannot publish information freely to the public with no copyright notice and no terms of use, and then retroactively claim it was stolen.
Blueberry AI also added this post:
We updated AGAIN to include GTC as well!
Over the past few days, we’ve seen the concerns raised around the GDC events list, and we want to take a moment to address this openly.
First, we want to acknowledge and respect the work that members of the community have done in the past to collect and share GDC event information. We genuinely respect the contributions that have helped developers discover events and connect during GDC week.
Our intention in creating the GDC events list was simple: to help the developer community easily find events happening throughout the week.
Second, to provide more context on how the page is built and maintained, we would like to share a brief timeline:
• Friday late afternoon: when we first became aware of the allegations, our engineering team immediately reviewed the page and updated the entire event list with a new interface within about ~2 hours.
• Today around 8:30 PM: after community members alerted us to a new post raising additional concerns, we expanded the page again in ~3 hours by adding GTC event listings.
These rapid updates demonstrate that the page is generated and maintained through our own technical systems. Our tools use automated processes and AI agents to collect publicly available event listings across multiple platforms. Because of this workflow, the list does not rely on any single source, and adding new event listings is technically straightforward using public information.
Third, we want to clarify that some claims circulating, such as allegations that we copied proprietary code or intentionally took someone’s work, are not accurate. The events listed are publicly promoted events, and the information itself comes from multiple public sources. We did not copy anyone’s work or misrepresent someone else’s contributions. If our page gave that impression, we sincerely regret the misunderstanding.
To avoid further confusion and to make the page more useful for the broader tech community, we have also expanded the page to include other public conference events, such as GTC, Siggraph and more, to benefit everyone, not only the game community.
For context, we are a small startup team working to build AI-powered tools for creative and game development teams. Our core product is an AI-powered digital asset management platform designed to help studios organize and search their internal files more efficiently.
Taylor, meanwhile, said the following, with visuals:
It wasn’t until there was a GamesBeat article that [Blueberry AI] bothered to make their list a 1-to-1 match with the GDCparties.com spreadsheet (they were still using my calendar for all the events, so it’s easily provable).
“We genuinely respect the contributions that have helped developers discover events and connect during GDC week.” – I have no idea how anyone can take this statement seriously considering how they provably ripped off the GDCparties.com content directly.
“reviewed the page and updated the entire event list with a new interface within about ~2 hours” – indeed at this point they stopped using my exact Filters and header links, and they severed the live connection to my spreadsheet (by copying it internally), but it was still a 1-to-1 duplicate with all of my metadata, edits, etc.
“These rapid updates demonstrate that the page is generated and maintained through our own technical systems” – This doesn’t prove that they didn’t duplicate GDCparties.com in the first place, it just proves that they ran it through an AI agent with a prompt like ‘oh no, we got caught, make this not look exactly like GDCparties.com’…I’m not sure how many times I have to share this direct side-by-side of the filters for it to sink in with BlueberryAI that they’ve been caught red-handed here.