If you're going to be releasing it as freeware, then put a donate button on your website. From all I heard of your plan, donating money will be justified. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material
> Hi Robin, > Yes, Star Trek and Star Wars have rather strict copyrights attached to > them. Lucas Film Limited has an extremely strict copyright polacy > regarding the use of Star Wars and its characters. However, that mainly > applies to products being sold using the copyrighted material. Which I > am not planning to sell those games for that reason. > What I will be doing with Star Wars is releasing it as freeware as fan > fiction. Generally, if you aren't selling the product, give it away as > free fan fiction, announce Lucas Film as the original copyright holder, > announce to your users Lucas Film is not responcible for any problems > encountered by this product, etc they will generally leave you alone. > > > Robin Kipp wrote: >> Hello all, >> Because Tom is talking about a new Star Wars game, there's also a Star >> Trek game and also the accessible Monty game I was just wondering, isn't >> there some copyrighted stuff in there? Like would Tom be allowed to put >> the original StarTrek soundtrack in Final Conflict, use original >> characters in a Star Wars game or write a new version of Monty? (That >> counts for other defs as well, I'm just using Tom as an example). Aren't >> the Star Trek soundtrack, the Star Wars characters and the games >> themselfes copyrighted material? Well I'm just wondering because to me >> that seems a bit weird... >> Robin >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
