On Thursday 23 October 2008 11:03:50 pm Sgeo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Ed Murphy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > May I host the Agoran Coat of Arms, or may I link to your copy, or > should I just remove the image?
This raises some interesting questions. What is the copyright status, in various national jurisdictions, of the Ruleset? the text of game-action messages? judicial rulings and arguments? DF messages? derivative works of the above? In the US, new works are copyright and unlicensed by default, and I suspect international standards may be similar; yet our community standards generally allow the creation of derivative works (e.g., judgements citing precedent, amended Rules, web-accessible databases). Do all these things fall under fair use? Or are we creating some sort of tacit license for each other by playing the game? What, exactly, is going on here? And how can the question be CFJed in a way that won't just come back IRRELEVANT? Pavitra
