Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? I'm being fair here. some of them are quite obscure nowadays anyway. HOgon's heroes for example was mostly popular in the 1970s, and doesn't really have a fan base anymore, unlike twilight zone which was an older ser

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Hmm. It might well be worthwhile questioning how you would react if it were your copyrighted work being used.Ultimately it probably comes down to intent: if you aren't making money and are doing the world a favour, nobody can reasonably

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Hi,The way I'm seeing it, as long as you don't use copyrighted characters there's a 99.9 percent you're not going to get a lawsuit. Take, for example, the game that phill made. It uses Hogwarts, sure, but I know a few oth

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Hi Folks,Before I created my Sarah game I tried to contact Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her lawyer.I received no response to my messages.I figured if they had a problem, I could always changed the copyrighted names in the game to something

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? As a small note once upon a time Lucas had a policy of demanding any and all star wars fan sites be taken down for infringing his copyright, regardless of the fact that they were effectively free publicity. Enforcement of copyright can be

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Dark, I certainly see where you are coming from, and in principle I agree with you. Unfortunately, it all comes down to what the developer's objective is and how much that particular copyrighted material means to him/her.For example, ba

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? You know,Most people in the audiogames scene are pretty good in getting away with it, just because it really never leaves the community. This is a fact that we simply will have to face, as there are very few sighted gamers who will actually

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Hi.Well there is a loophole if you create a star wars, star trek, or simpsons game and use sounds from companies if you release it as an open source project you can call it fanfiction and if a company threatens to sue  you you can just tell

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? I'm afraid I agree with Arqmeister on this.  the law be  buggered!  why should these idiots like Lukasarts who don't give a  rats arse about vi people accessing their stuff prevent someone from making their  own as well. that

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? I'm afraid I agree with Arqmeister on this.  the law be  buggered!  why should these idiots like Lukasarts who don't give a  rats arse about vi people accessing their stuff prevent someone from making their  own as well. that

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? American Dad, there are a lot of differences to consider here.First, as many others have said Jim Kitchen is not selling any of his games. While that alone won't protect him from a lawsuit over copyright infringement it makes such a

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? thanks, I wasn't planning on a lawsuit, but I know about USA games losing the star wars licence a long time ago. during the 1990s, PCS games (then known as Personal Computer systems) was the only audio game company to obtain any licences

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Yes you can be sued for using another's work even in a freeware product, the key thing here is that because they're free there's simply no money in a lawsuit. Add to that the things he borrows from are popular enough that

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Do keep in mind, he's been making games, including dos ones, since 1994, and does give credit, where credit is do.Each, and every game  of his, is "freeware," URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? I think there are two things to consider:1. As far as I know, Jim Kitchen's not claiming anywhere that everything is his. He borrows all kinds of stuff, as far as music, sounds and such go.2. Since he's not charging for his produ

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

Re: jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? Because Jim's games are freeware, thus, he is seeking no profit, thus, no grounds to sue him because no money is being made on someone else's behalf. Dam copyright laws and lawyers who support it can go to hell.

jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? hello,I was playing through all the games from jim kitchen and noticed that all of them stole at least one thing that was certainly under copyright.this is not a threat to sue him just so you know.for example, mach 1 plays a bit of the dukes of

jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute?

jim kitchen headed for a great big lawsute? hello,I was playing through all the games from jim kitchen and noticed that all of them stole at least one thing that was certainly under copyright.this is not a threat to sue him just so you know.for example, mach 1 plays a bit of the dukes of