thats a point. At 08:26 a.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: >I can agree with you, but in order to make Star Wars and Star Trek games, >you must use the sound effects relating to those trademarks. You can't just >design them yourself. Otherwise, it won't be star wars or star trek. >Unfortunately, Lucas Film and Paramount don't sell there sounds, making >getting sounds from games one of the only options. If Lucas and Paramount >would sell there sounds for reasonable prices like Sound Ideas do, then we >could use them instead of sounds from games. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "michael feir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:07 PM >Subject: Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds > > >> I've never understood why some developers are so keen to needlessly break >> copyright laws and risk prosecution. When you're dealing with classic >> arcade >> games which have been cloned a million times over, I can certainly >> understand. It would surprise me tremendously if Pacman Talks or Dynaman >> incurred anybody's letigious wrath. I think there's a good argument to be >> made that making an accessible version of a classic game is certainly not >> robbing anybody of potential derived profits. When you're dealing with >> such >> specific licenses like Star Wars and such, it's a whole different story. >> People have been sued by Paramount for making Star Trek based games. I >> have >> no doubt that Lucas Arts is equally defensive of the Star Wars franchise. >> Also, taking sounds that are not only directly tied to a game as well as a >> major entertainment franchise substantially increases the risks of being >> taken to court. Certainly, there's the "can't squeeze blood from a stone" >> argument. Nobody producing accessible games has exactly struck gold. >> >> Pirating other accessible game developer's sound effects in our community >> is >> again just begging for trouble. They're as recogniseable as trademark >> logos >> or famous brands to us. Does anybody know what the legal status of sounds >> actually is? I've heard that you can't copyright a sound from some people. >> Others think of them like works of art which are subject to legal >> protection. This has always made sense to me. I made a point of getting a >> library of royalty-free sound effects. The only condition is that I can't >> intentionally use those sounds in such a way that they can easily be >> recovered in unmodified form. They also have to be used as part of an >> actual >> presentation such as a game. >> >> Iven's act is in my mind certainly piracy of Liam's work. If he's >> published >> a demo on Blindcooltech, that'll spread through the blind community pretty >> well. Liam might want to consider doing something with Superliam assuming >> nobody has done a prior podcast of it. Liam spent quite a lot of time and >> effort producing that game. I certainly look forward to seeing more >> sidescrollers for our community but would like them to be original and >> push >> the bar higher than the bare basics. >> >> Michael Feir >> Creator and former Editor of Audyssey Magazine >> 1996-2004 >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:41 PM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds >> >> >>> does anyone want to think about how totally illegal this is? Of course >>> not. >>> I'm starting to get annoyed. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 12:14 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds >>> >>> >>>> Are the sounds sorted by name? >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:58 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds >>>> >>>> >>>>> ok. Since the files or rather the files are spread across three or four >>>>> folders I'll upload them a folder at a time in zip files. and then I'll >>>>> paste the links here. I'll call the files swsounds1.zip swsounds2.zip >>>>> and >>>>> so >>>>> on. I'll do it later on this afternoon. I think it'd be cool to have a >>>>> enemy >>>>> attack-like sw game which is unbeatable and you just fight enemies and >>>>> rack >>>>> up points. Also, I want to be careful and not accidentally make a copy >>>>> or >>>>> rip-off of what Rob has planned for jedi quest. It wouldn't make sense >>>>> to >>>>> have two games that are the same just having different names in my >>>>> opinion >>>>> so I want to be careful about that. >>>>> >>>>> Josh >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Angel L Adorno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:25 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] star wars sounds >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> that would be great please do that. >>>>>> thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >>>>>> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >>>>>> visit >>>>>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >>>>>> any subscription changes via the web. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Gamers mailing list .. 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