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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Legal action against STrabble game.
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Date: 29 May 91 22:56:22 GMT
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In article <1991May29.212157.27603@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the original Tetris WAS PD, and the
>folks that have been making money on high-quality professional implementations
>don't deserve a copyright on the original innovation.

As usual, you're wrong. I'd be happy to tell you in email, but you
don't seem to like receiving email from people who tell you you're
wrong. Freedom of stupidity, I guess. Your loss.

The rights to Tetris are owned by a Russian company who sells it to
various other companies. I recall a court case recently in which
Nintendo forced Tengen (a subsid. of Atari Games, which isn't related
to Atari Corporation anymore) to stop selling a Tetris game. Nintendo
had licensed it directly from the Rusians, while Tengen had
sub-licensed it from a British company who owned the "home computer"
rights.