Re: [stella] Tetris copyright?!!!

Subject: Re: [stella] Tetris copyright?!!!
From: Lord Spambraticus of Borg <satanus@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:33:02 +1000
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:46:23 -0500 macbeth@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robin Harbron) wrote:

>This Tetris company may be for real.
>
>>From what I know, the author of Tetris just received permission/rights
>/whatever in the last year or so (more than 10 years after he originally
>made it) to make money from Tetris.  I suppose this has something to do
>with being Russian.
>
>Very likely, most of the money that was to be made from Tetris has
>already been made, so he's had to resort to making money "retro-
>actively", so to speak - with lawsuits, etc.

Good luck.  The game's worthless now, except as an oddity of its age.  I do find
it very hard to believe those russians didn't make some money out of it,
however, as I can recall seeing some strange (c) names on the first versions of
the games way back when.

=R=


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