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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19 2012 @ 03:01 PM EDT |
Let's take chess as an example. The game board of 64 squares isn't
copyrightable, the rules, the number of rooks, pawns, etc are not copyrightable.
However, the design of the pieces are distinct, artistic and copyrightable. A
castle is a castle, but a decorated castle is unique. If the playing board has
artwork, (filigreeing the lines, and picture in the center, etc) this detail
could be copyrighted.
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- Copyright of game rules - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 05:53 AM EDT
- Not so sure - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 11:37 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT |
Well, I've played chess with NINE pawns.
And three knights, three bishops, and iirc three rooks.
Only one king and queen though.
Hexagonal chess, anyone? (Which has a nice little quirk I
used to great effect on a couple of occasions - if a knight
is covering another piece, you can move it and still keep
that piece covered.)
Cheers,
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| Authored by: MDT on Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 10:46 AM EDT |
Instead of having L and square and line and pyramid shaped pieces, have U and +
and . and | shaped pieces. In other words, change the shape of the pieces.
Instead of a z shaped piece being blue or green, make it orange. Or, make it
flowers, so a z is roses, a | is daisy's, etc. Make the play field wider or
narrower, add in some bomb pieces.
The problem is, the guys who got hit for cloning literally made everything look
exactly the same as the original tetris, right down to the color and shape of
the blocks, with exactly the same gameplay and exactly the same colors.
An example of this would be someone making a Greed is Good game that had city
streets like Park Place and railroads and chance and free parking and jail and
community chest. Then they put in a little pewter car, a tophat, and had this
funny little guy in a dapper coat on all the cards. You get $200 for passing
go. If you land on an empty property, you can buy it, or if it's owned, you pay
rent based on how improved it is.
In other words, they didn't make a monopoly like game, they changed the name of
Monopoly to Greed is Good and sold the exact same game. That's violation of
trade dress (which is copyright violation).
If they'd changed it to interstellar shipping lines, took out the utilities,
changed the names of the streets, changed the monetary units, made it a space
based game (with the properties being solar systems), and made little alien
themed parts, but kept the rules exactly the same, they'd have been fine.
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