Well, it seems to me there is an easy solution to this problem.
Make your game with generic sounds for everything, don't give it a title
that is a licensed name, then upon game release a zip file mysteriously
appears on the net that has all the sounds from the Star Wars universe or
whatever that neatly plugs into the game and replaces all sounds.
The zip replacement would have no trackable source, and certainly would
not have anything to do with the company that released this generic game, it
just happened that a fan released a sound pack for it as far as they know
and nothing they can do about it in any realistic way.
This would cut into sales a bit, as you would not have a household name
to market the game with, but word would get out quickly enough amongst the
game community about what the deal was, and the sound pack would soon be
shared amongst players.
If you use this idea, you can send a cut of the profits to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], grin.
Later,
Che
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] copyrights
> Hi Josh,
> Unfortunately, that kind of thinking doesn't do anyone any good. That
> won't stop them for suing for damages if they decided to take it to that
> extreme. Besides which if they get a court order to destroy my materials
> and I fail to comply with that court order that could be seenas contempt
> of court.
> About the only way I know of to protect myself from that type of
> situation would either clone the software without using trade marks or
> design all of my copyrighted games under a open source license
> agreement. If I go with an open source license agreement that puts all
> of my hard work in the public domain with no financial backing for the
> product. Yeah, you guys get a free game, but what money or financial
> gain do I get out of it?
>
>
> josh wrote:
>> Hi thomas,
>>
>> if i were you, I would make the game, and then if they ask you to destroy
>> it, say, well you see, I'd really like to, but the game has already been
>> sold to blind people all over the world including in the middle eastern
>> countries.
>>
>
>
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