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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Some Copyrighted Games...
Keywords: Copyright battles again
Message-ID: <1341@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 91 08:47:29 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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  I know I don't want to hear a long rambling discusion of copyrights and I'm
sure most readers don't want to either, so don't answer the following
question with a discussion on copyright law.  If that's what I want, I'll
ask my father, an attorney.

  The question :

  Risk, Monoply, others I'm sure.  These are real board games, yet there are
Mac version floating around in various *ware versions, I should know, since I
have Risk (But who doesn't?). Why hasn't Parker Brothers and the other companies
that have "stolen" games done something about this?

  The reason for asking :

  I'm going to write a Mac version of a real world game, and I'm wondering what
in the dickens I will do with it.  I know others will want it, and it will be
a quality game.

  I won't say the name of the game in case I post it somewhere anonymously so
no one can connect me.
  Ideas anyone?

  By the way, I did say "going to write."  That is, the program is in my mind
only right now.  Not a single byte of code written.  Not a one.  So don't
tell me "Put it anonymously on my FTP site."  That won't help.
  Thanks.

|      J. Taggart Gorman Jr.     | "I'm a no rust build up man myself."
|                                |          -Christian Slater
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |             in 'Heathers'