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= -- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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