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" <gamers@audyssey.org> 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" <gamers@audyssey.org> > 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" <gamers@audyssey.org> >> 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: <gamers@audyssey.org> >>> 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 .. Gamers@audyssey.org >>>> 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 .. Gamers@audyssey.org >>> 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 .. Gamers@audyssey.org >> 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 .. Gamers@audyssey.org > 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. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.10/625 - Release Date: > 13/01/2007 5:40 PM > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org 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.
