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Tetris Under Fire
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Fri Feb 19, 1999 03:27 AM
from the now-I've-got-the-theme-song-in-my-head dept.
from the now-I've-got-the-theme-song-in-my-head dept.
Andrew Bednarz writes
"How many people are aware of what The Tetris Company is
doing? They're claiming they own copyright on "the look
and feel and trade dress" of Tetris. They are attempting
to remove all unauthorised tetris games!" Considering
that there are dozens of tetris clones (many distributed
under the GPL) I suspect their quest is futile. I'm not sure
how I feal about this one. Their claim is probably legit,
and the above story compares this to the industry allowing
only one game in a genre, but tetris is tetris- its not a block
game genre, its a specific game with rules we are all familiar
with. Different side scrollers have different rules. Hmm.
Wierd case. What do you think?
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- Maybe, maybe not? by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @03:52AM
- I knew that I saw this somewhere before by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:15AM
- The problem I have by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:15AM
- Yes, there is a copyright by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:40AM
- Legal precedents by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:46AM
- League for Programming Freedom have... by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:51AM
- new law firm by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @05:32AM
- Pentominoes by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @05:35AM
- Copyright infringement by Anonymous Coward (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:05AM
- The problem I have by Patrik Nordebo (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @08:49AM
- Copyright infringement by Kirth (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:20AM
- Welltris? by abischof (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:56AM
- Copyright infringement by jandrese (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:59AM
- 95% of games are "ripoffs" by gavinhall (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:18AM
- The problem I have by jpatters (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:06AM
- www.rotaru.com is down by jpatters (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:28AM
- www.rotaru.com is down by jpatters (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @11:00AM
- Bending the rules and twisting the name... by Threed (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:25AM
- Countersuit for legal fees by Tom Servo (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @11:56AM
- What's wrong with that? I'll tell you... by Danse (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:40AM
- heh.. by ninjaz (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:55AM
- Copyright infringement by ninjaz (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:03AM
- Make the plaintiff pay for meritless cases by dylan_- (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @10:40AM
- I want to see them.. by Daniel (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:53AM
- The Link that says it all... by Canis Lupus (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:31AM
- Valid case, but --- by Proteus (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:11AM
- Complete and utter bul###t. by Forge (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:47AM
- Get them to pick on Troll Tech. by Forge (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:56AM
- Look-and-Feel Copyrights by mo (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @03:19PM
- More background on this by spot (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @02:00PM
- This isn't news by kriston (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:01AM
- Copyright infringement by Rozzin (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @04:40AM
- Slashdot and Geocities by NYC (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:10AM
- I thought a russian guy did it... by morgan1 (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @12:09PM
- Until I recieve a court order, I'm doing nothing by falser (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:41AM
- Look-and-Feel Copyrights by rdsmith (Score:2) Friday February 19 1999, @04:20AM
- What can they do to a gpl project? by dwlemon (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @03:39PM
- Too Little Too Late. by Bigman (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:35AM
- Can you copyright the rules to a game? by Soulfry (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @05:54AM
- A game's "concept" versus its "rules" by Soulfry (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:28AM
- Email campaign!! by Rayban (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:43AM
- They really won't let youuse the name "Tetris"... by Rahga (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @10:44AM
- Look and Feel Copyrights are Bad by Maciej Stachowiak (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @06:02AM
- not. by Zebulun (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @11:13AM
- Sad by fuerstma (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @09:06AM
- Has anyone confirmed this? by rde (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @01:40PM
- I am with the Tetris creator by Hasdi Hashim (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @07:14AM
- 95% of games are "ripoffs" by dillon_rinker (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @08:36AM
- "wierd" by dillon_rinker (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @08:46AM
- WELL DEAR GOD THEN! by mbd1475 (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @02:58PM
- money hungry morons by davek (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @10:09AM
- The suit is probably going to be valid. by bitwize (Score:1) Friday February 19 1999, @09:13AM
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