On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:10 pm, Ken Arromdee wrote: > Some searching on the Copyright Office's website showed me this: > > http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html > > "Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents > others from developing another game based on similar principles."
Hmmm... interesting. Now I wish I still worked at WotC to ask them what they think about this. My gut says their response would go something like this: "The Copyright's office isn't a court of law, so they can't just say what is and is not copyrightable." Some fine legal reasoning, to be sure :) -- Sean Kellogg 3rd Year - University of Washington School of Law Graduate & Professional Student Senate Treasurer UW Service & Activities Committee Interim Chair w: http://www.probonogeek.org So, let go ...Jump in ...Oh well, what you waiting for? ...it's all right ...'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown