Hi Greg,

"Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the
method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea,
system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing,
merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing
in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on
similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an
author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form."

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html

Cheers,

CS


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On 10 January 2012 07:54, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote:

> <quote name="Rob Myers" date="2012-01-09" time="20:34:53 +0000">
> > And you can't copyright game rules anyway (which was kind of a
> > dirty secret about the OGL...).
>
> Citation? I was wondering about that. I have spent a lot of time
> thinking about copyrightability over the years w.r.t. medical
> images/drawings, but never about game rules. That is an intriguing
> thought process.
>
> Best,
>
> Greg
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