[ofa0e]

Your benchmarks should not involve IP.

[sowbug]

The only intellectual property here would be trademark. No copyright, no patent, no trade secret. Unless someone wants to market the test results as a genuine Pac-Man-branded product, or otherwise dilute that brand, there's nothing should-y about it.

[bongodongobob]

It's not an ethics thing. It's a guardrails thing.

[ComplexSystems]

Why? This seems like a reasonable task to benchmark on.

[adastra22]

Because you hit guard rails.

[ofa0e]

Sure, reasonable to benchmark on if your goal is to find out which companies are the best at stealing the hard work of some honest, human souls.