Hi Johnny, Well, it is possible a community as small as ours has simply gone unnoticed by companies like Paramount, or they don't think we are worth there time. Either way David Greenwood has never indicated having any problems with Trek 2000 and I have never heard any complaints about STFC. Copyright law is a very sticky and tricky business. There is both an intelectual property and ownership angle that needs to be balanced here. With Shades of Doom it is based on the doom concept, but the name and game is different enough to probably get away with to much complaint from the maker's of the Doom triligy. As someone pointed out one way to get around copyright law is to come up with something similar, but change it enough that isn't an outright copy. Take the game Resident Evil. At the basic level you are an investigative reporter trapped in a shopping mall with a bunch of psychos and Zombies. The concept itself probably could be used, but not the characters and sounds and avoid copyright laws. Say I come along call it the Zombie mall. Instead of a reporter I am a comando from the Seals, Marines, a FBI agent, bla. The layout of the mall is different. Zombies are in different places. I used someone elses initial idea, but made up my own game.
johnny tai wrote: > I don't think I'm too worried about personal preferences here. I too like > original materials, but I can't say if someone to make, say, a > blind-friendly Final Fantasy game using the FF sounds, I wouldn't buy it- > hell, I'd buy it in an instant! My question was more around the legal issue, > if using starwar sounds is really not legal, how did GMA get around with > using star trek sounds, and the Doom name, that too is not quite original > seeing how that game's kind of like the original Doom. > And by the way, the sounds in Shades of Doom, some of them anyway, are not > original...as far as I can tell, since I came across a site which contains > hallween effect sounds for download, and alot of them are sounds you find in > SOD. > I admit, it is perfectly possible someone took the sounds out of SOD and put > it on a site for free download, but it'd be interesting to know how this > work legally. > Again, I am not trying to argue with anyone or criticize anyone, just want > to learn how things work-- legally. > JST > _______________________________________________ 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.
