Re: copyright

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Re: copyright

On Sat, Jul 12, 1997 4:47 AM, Nadler <mailto:sn11162@CEDARNET.ORG> wrote:
> Can you make a game for a calc using a copyrighted name like Tetris? I
> am assuming that Tetris was copyrighted. When a calculator game says
> that it is copyrighted is it really copyrighted or did the author just
> write it on there?

Yes and no. Tetris (as a name and an idea) is trademarked and Copyright
1987, Elorg. (which is an abbreviation for Tetris's original publisher,
whose name is untypably long.) I believe commercial releases of Tetris must
come from a group which has officially licensed the game. They're probably
not going to hunt down people who make not-so-widely (read:
non-commercially) distributed versions of their game, though.

Besides that, I don't believe any of these Tetris game authors have put
their name down as the copyright name for "Tetris", just their own code
rendition of the game. That's understandable.

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