Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Legal Question Message-ID: <12899@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 19 Jul 90 20:38:07 GMT References: <191100007@trsvax> <1990Jul9.164219.27369@siia.mv.com> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 22 In article wdr@wang.com (William Ricker) writes: >wex@sitting.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) writes: > >>drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick) writes: > >> In <191100007@trsvax> reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes: >> >Can the rules of a game be copyrighted or patented? > >The Rules, Paraphernalia, and concepts of the classic board game >Monopoly were patented. I have read the patent, which is the usual >collection of stacked claims, broad to narrow. I believe the patent by Charles B. Darrow is now expired, and thus the only protected parts of the game Monopoly [trademark of Parker Bros.] are those parts trademarked and copyrighted by Parker Brothers. There is supposed to be another board game called "anti-monopoly" with similar rules. oz --- Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. | oz@nexus.yorku.ca Rob Pike | or (416) 736 5257