Re: New Game

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From: Ramez Naam
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:03

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pjhst10+@pitt.edu (Peter   J Hill) writes:

>I have an idea for a new game.  Does anyone know if I should copyright it, or
>do I have to get a patent, or what?  Thanks for your reply

If all you have is an idea, you can't do either.  If this is a
role-playing or other paper game, you can copyright the final rules (or
any sets of rules up until then, for that matter).  Copyright only
protects the _form_ of the document, though.  Someone can still take all
of your ideas and use them in a different game, with only very slight
modifications.  

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Ramez Naam
naam@terra.cecer.army.mil

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