RE: [GD-General] Copyright on games

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

I will come out and say that Bust-A-Move clone was a random example based on
a game that you can play here with Sky (British sat TV company).

I'm asking in general.

IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer ?

My wife is, maybe I should ask her ? :) Although I doubt she would know,
it's not her field (thus my question here).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Maier [mailto:st...@ys...]
> Sent: 03 March 2003 14:37
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-General] Copyright on games
> 
> 
> 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
>