On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:50:02 -0500 Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the Ruleset has multiple authors. Would there be a distinction between the legal rights of someone who has contributed versus a player who hasn't? What if a player contributed to the Ruleset, but eir contributions have subsequently been removed? (Those questions probably only make sense if we disregard any implied license.) -- Elysion
