Subject: Re: [stella] Tetris copyright?!!! From: Galen Tatsuo Komatsu <gkomatsu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:29:02 -1000 |
This aspiring copyright law geek doesn't really have anything much to add that hasn't already been said, so he'll just nitpick and add to some of others' postings. =^) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:00:14 -1000 From: Pete Holland <petehollandjr@xxxxxxxxx> > 2) About three years ago, Taito released a game called "Fighter's > Destiny." The response was a modicum of interest from fighting game > fans (such as myself) and a lawsuit from Capcom, who felt that the Not Data East's "Fighter's History"? Or did I miss another one? (I liked this game, so I tend to remember this one. =^) > God's sake, how many Wolfenstein clones are there (Doom and Quake are > from the same company!)? As much as it pains me to say it, it comes Goes back a bit further, before Wolfenstein3D, the ID boys released a trilogy called "Catacombs of <something>." Released through Softdisk Publishing. Basically a simpler version of W3D (rather, W3D expanded on Catacombs.) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:56:01 -1000 From: Ruffin Bailey <rufbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > It does make me wonder what would happen if a game like football wasn't > as old as it is (and probably past copyrighting). I wonder if someone > will copyright ultimate frisbee? They'd have to copyright it under a different name. I believe "Frisbee" is trademarked by Wham-o. Proper litigation-free term is "flying disc." =^) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:20:34 -1000 From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > At 10:33 AM 2/23/99 +1000, Lord Spambraticus of Borg wrote: > >Good luck. The game's worthless now, except as an oddity of its age. > Given the fact that people are still making money from the first videogame > (keychain game version of Pong), I find it hard to believe that there is no > money left to be made from Tetris. example: the recently released "Magical Tetris Challenge" ...from the fine print in the advertisement: Tetris (C) 1987 Elorg. Magical Tetris Challenge(C) 1998 Elorg. Original Concept & design by Alexey Pajitnov. Magical Tetris Challenge (C) licensed to the Tetris Company and sublicensed to Capcom Co., Ltd. Magical Tetris Challenge^tm sublicensed to Capcom Co., Ltd. by the Tetris Company. All Rights Reserved. -- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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