On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:19:35AM +0200, Joost Yervante Damad wrote: > 'Patriek Lesparre' wrote about 'Re: [MSX] GURU LOGIC off-line' - Sat, Jun 12, 2004 > at 07:17:03PM CEST > > Joost Yervante Damad wrote: > > >Since when is a game concept copyrightable? > > > > Dunno, maybe you should ask Jaleco who got their ass kicked in court by > > Konami, just because they made a game involving musical instruments too. ^^; > > You must keep in mind that Japan & USA have much more rediculous > interpretation of copyright then Europe.
According to dutch law (which is what you should live by when in Holland), non-dutch laws are only applicable to you when you provide products to other countries. So if it's only the US and Japan (and Robsy doesn't live in one of those countries), then just not publishing it to them would probably be enough. A warning on the download page that you are not allowed to download if you are in the US or Japan, and are not allowed to export it to there, could be legally enough to make sure you cannot be sued by their laws. However, I'm not sure if I would risk it. That's the main problem about court cases IMO: Big companies with lots of money can just have you do anything they want by threatening with a case. > I just found it curious that people ask no questions about such issues. > This is a discussion mailinglist after all :) No questions? There's been quite a thread about it already. What kind of questions did you expect? Bye, shevek -- I encourage sending me encrypted e-mail. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. for more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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