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From: David Seah
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:59

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In article <1992Dec18.143639.3778@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) writes:
>Parker Brothers had to chase down a lot of people who were translating the 
>popular Monopoly and Risk games into computer versions without licensing 
>them.  Too many of these, and the copyright holders can "lose" the copyright
>to the public domain.

Has this happened with Tetris?  There seem to be ten million clones of it
out there. 

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