[Arianne-general] Copyright Issues

[Brian T. <bri...@ho...>]

Yes, I am concerned about copyrights.  I am concerned that anyday of the 
week a corporation could take our ideas for its own and turn them into a 
profit machine.  We have done the work, more or less, and we deserve to see 
the game become a reality without the threat of a corporation taking the 
"IDEA" of what we are doing.  I am not as concerned about the code, but more 
about the ideas.  A game based on our ideas may be more valuable to a 
company that is willing to pay coders to start off with code from scratch.  
We are creating a "way" of doing things and that is important.  I would like 
to know that our ideas will remain free, but not free to anyone to use that 
wants to make money off of them.  I would like every aspect of the game to 
be free, but not to corporations to make profit.  What in the GPL prevents a 
corporation from stealing our most priced possessions?  What keeps our ideas 
free, but prevents others from profitting from them?

For now I will continue to work on the ideas we have already discussed and 
will continue to produce, but I am not will to broadcast the ideas so that 
companies can profit.

Is there a legal expert attached to sourceforge that can help, or are we on 
our own(are we on our own or are the corporations listening already?)?  I 
would like to add one statement, all material that I have submitted to this 
list is to be considered under joint ownership as a copyright I will split 
its owership with any INDIVIDUAL that has submitted ideas to the 
list(because you have all influenced what I have written), but those 
INDIVIDUALS must acknowledge singular ownership and not forfeit/give the 
ownership to another individual or corporation.  I also concede that 
anything that I have submitted to the group shall be handled as the leader 
(Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin) deems fitting.

I will continue to work on the ideas of the group and interact with the 
group, but the work will remain on my computer.  I consider anything that I 
produce related to the idea of a fantasy game the property of the Arianne 
group, but I am concerned and until I know that it is safe to be broadcast 
then it will stay with me.

Brian Thompson


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