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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
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Date: 7 Jun 90 22:18:32 GMT
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Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <4158@darkstar.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:
>    It is too late now to stuff this cat into the bag. The PD versions of
>Tetris have been out too long and spread too far. The most Spectrum Holobyte
>can do is preasure people like Fred & make public posturings. They would have
>been much better off to have left it alone & realized it was too late.
     Actually, no; not from their point of view. Sure, this will do absolutely
nothing against all the PD Tetris clones out there; but that isn't the point
of their action.
     Under US copyright law, if you do not defend your copyright, you _lose_
your copyright. I believe this is still true under the Berne convention.
Since they found out about the PD Tetris, they were obligated to take
action. If they had not, then it would have been very easy for other
_commercial_ publishers to whip together a Tetris clone and publish it
for money.
                                                        - R'ykandar.
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