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Article #1777Re: Copyrights of old games...
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:26
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:26
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toddl@county.lmt.mn.org (Todd Lehman) writes about intellectual property: >But what I meant was that in these two cases (and probably others), these >games are so simple as to be discovered by any civilization, given enough >time. Couldn't the same thing be said of any discovery/invention? This sounds like the old `monkeys pounding out Shakespeare' argument. Sure it's possible, but not likely. Who is to say that the super widget you just discovered/invented wouldn't have been discovered/invented in the next county over a couple of days after you did it? A few weeks? A few centuries? >the landscape of the whole thing looks like such a gray area... This is the truth. Intellectual property is a big mess. Chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!acf5!checker From: checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: Copyrights of old games... Message-ID: <2110@acf5.NYU.EDU> Date: 21 Dec 92 06:26:59 GMT References: <1992Dec20.155958.11026@ee.rochester.edu> <1992Dec20.213844.12147@news2.cis.umn.edu> <2108@acf5.NYU.EDU> <1992Dec21.030635.15139@news2.cis.umn.edu> Organization: New York University Lines: 20