Re: [GD-General] Copyright on games

[Steve M. <st...@ys...>]

Well The Tetris Company has taken action against others that have made Teris clones before.  Their website if I remember correctly even had a link to talk to them about officially licensed games, but they guy answering the emails was not very helpful. 

I had heard of a publisher (Extreme3D) getting sued for having clones, but then there is egames, which does alot of clones.  

IANAL, so I can't talk about the legality of a bust-a-move clone, but there are alot of them out there - and some big names making that type of clone for different consoles too.  So I think that you might fall under a copyright owners radar, and that they would probably not sue, but there is always a chance.  Take a look at Snood.  They have been a very popular shareware version of bust-a-move and I don't think that have been sued yet.

Steve

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gareth Lewin <GL...@cl...>
Reply-To: gam...@li...
Date:  Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:49:09 -0000

>Does anyone have any pointers to some info on what is (c) and what isn't ?
>
>Could I take bust-a-move (puzzle bobble). Totally redo the game, different
>graphics, different sounds, etc, but same game play ? 
>
>Maybe rotating the game play so you shoot down. Would that be legal ?
>
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