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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tetris Clones
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Date: 13 Jun 90 21:05:07 GMT
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In article <9006131950.AA17221@cwns9.INS.CWRU.Edu> ab980@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>While all the fighting is going on about Tetris clones, this raises the
>question of whether it is legal to convert Arcade games which are NOT
>available for the Amiga to the Amiga format. Does anyone have a legal opinion?
>Virtually,

Cloning a game for "another" machine is immaterial as far as infringment is
concerned. If you make a game that infringes, it doesn't matter what machine
it runs on.  If I was able to make an exact clone of Marios Brothers and
had it run on a Lynx instead of a Nintendo, I'd still be infringing.

-- Marco
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