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In article <456@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
<Beware... the game "OGRE" is copyrighted by Steve Jackson games. Steve
<Jackson is, I am given to understand, a litigious fella. That means he's
<heavily into taking vigorous legal action to defend his rights.

Why don't we call it "Bolo" instead? Going all the way back to the
original sources (well, there are probably more even further back...).

The PD version floating around doesn't include any of the text from
the original (or it didn't when I was fooling with it), so there's not
a clear copyright violation involved. The best bet is the "look and
feel" idiocy being propogated by certain vendors, but that's never
actually ben upheld in court. Taking that route, SJ might get a
restraining order to keep people from distributing the PD game.

If he actually carried it into a lawsuit, copyright penalties are
usually something nominal plus damanges. What damages can SJ claim
from a game that encourages people to get a copy of his work?

BTW, SJ licensed the concept of the Bolo, and the authers of the
commercial Ogre came licensed that from SJ. Since both people are
making money off of the licensed work, there is room for non-trivial
amounts of money to change hands in the lawsuit.

	<mike
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