Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-24 Thread Willem
rday, 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.

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2007-12-24 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Bryan, Cool! I unfortunately do not own any of the Simpsons DVD sets. Mike Reiss of course sure was hilarious to chat with and listen to him give a talk. May I ask, are the DVD sets described? I've got to try to get all of the seasons of The Simpsons that have been described. I get them

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-23 Thread shaun everiss
TRUE ALL ORIGIONAL STUFF IS EXCLUDED FROM THIS RULE. THING IS MOST STUFF IS COPPIED OR IS SIMULAR IN THE SIGHTED WORLD TO. At 11:01 a.m. 24/12/2007, you wrote: >Hi Shaun, > >Quote >that actually brings up a semi scary thought. >Using this line of thought, its ok to crack the games because they are

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2007-12-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Quote that actually brings up a semi scary thought. Using this line of thought, its ok to crack the games because they are violating copywrites anyway. End quote Perhaps that might be true for some games, but it certainly wouldn't be true for every game. For example, Rail Racer is 100

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-23 Thread Bryan
"Bryan" Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > Hi Bryan, > > Yes, The Simpsons are pretty aggressive about copyright infringement. > However I was having dinner with and chatting with one of the writer slash > producers of The S

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-23 Thread Tyler Wood
Great, mathayas...oops, I mean Valiant. I can't seem to get that mud name out of my head. Tyler --- 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/ma

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-23 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Bryan, Yes, The Simpsons are pretty aggressive about copyright infringement. However I was having dinner with and chatting with one of the writer slash producers of The Simpsons. (Michael Reiss) (Mike Rice) I told him that Homer was in just about every one of my games and that I was workin

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread shaun everiss
that actually brings up a semi scary thought. Using this line of thought, its ok to crack the games because they are violating copywrites anyway. Its weird but it makes me think of a cd which can be a coppy of a coppy, etc etc etc. At 05:54 a.m. 23/12/2007, you wrote: >Hi Robin and all, >It might

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Bryan
yler Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" > Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:40 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > > >> Oh, wow. I can just imagine it. Good loard... >> >> stupid website isn't workin

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2007-12-22 Thread Valiant (on laptop)
sion list" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > Oh, wow. I can just imagine it. Good loard... > > stupid website isn't working, i have to take that off my signature, > *G'g'g'g'gr'r'r'r'

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2007-12-22 Thread Bryan
illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Original Message - From: "william lomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > hi why are you guys all paranoid no one,w ill

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Bryan
illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > Hi Robin and all, > It might surprise s

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Bryan
AM 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

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Bryan
PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > Hi Bryan, > >> Like I said, could you imagine the headlines? It's one thing >> to sue a rapper >> for using Pacman soun

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2007-12-22 Thread Robin Kipp
Hello all, OK, I was just interested in this whole copyright thing. So thanks for all the good info! 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://audysse

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2007-12-22 Thread william lomas
hi why are you guys all paranoid no one,w ill find out for god sake, the mainstream companies don't care about us anyway On 22 Dec 2007, at 16:24, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, > Not only that I am going to be releasing Star Wars as fan fiction. > I've > even thought about making it open source wh

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Robin and all, It might surprise some of you that most accessible games out there violates one copyright or another. For example, some of Jim Kitchens games like Life, Monopoly, etc are copyrighted and owned by Hazbro Toys but they have never complained to Jim about using their copyrights. So

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi David, The primary disadvantage for Lucas Film, Lucas Arts, etc is that USA Games is so small it would cost them more to sue me than they could ever hope to get back in a law suit. At most they would probably send me a nasty legal sease and desist letter with a court order to take all referen

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Not only that I am going to be releasing Star Wars as fan fiction. I've even thought about making it open source which puts the game in the public domain. What money is there to sue for? I mad nothing off of it, and in the public domain that means all blinks would own the game. Laugh. Brya

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread Thomas Ward
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 no

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-22 Thread GMail
'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > Hi Bryan, > >> Like I said, could you imagine the headlines? It's one thing >> to sue a rapper >> for using Pacman sounds in one of his songs si

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2007-12-22 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi Bryan, > Like I said, could you imagine the headlines? It's one thing > to sue a rapper > for using Pacman sounds in one of his songs since he's likely > to have the > money, but suing a blind game developer who is just one > person is far more > likely to attract unfavorable attention th

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2007-12-21 Thread Tyler Wood
Oh, wow. I can just imagine it. Good loard... stupid website isn't working, i have to take that off my signature, *G'g'g'g'gr'r'r'r'ro''o'o'o'o'o'w'w'w'ww'w''l'l'l'l'l'l* sorry for those of you who weren't using elequence, but that sounds kind of cool. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@a

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2007-12-21 Thread GMail
Oh. Well then, disregard my last post. My question was answered. Thanks, Bryan. - Original Message - From: "Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > L

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2007-12-21 Thread GMail
- From: "Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > True, but a big name game designer isn't likely to risk losing face by > taking a few blind people to court

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-21 Thread Bryan
own games accessible. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Original Message - From: "Robin Kipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > Hi Bryan, >

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2007-12-21 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi Bryan, > True, but a big name game designer isn't likely to risk > losing face by > taking a few blind people to court to sue for money they're > unlikely to > have. Imagine the headlines. Well I actually think that could happen. Incredible and weird things have always happened and are sti

Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-21 Thread Bryan
L PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:25 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material > 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 so

[Audyssey] Copyrighted material

2007-12-21 Thread Robin Kipp
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 charact