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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why??
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 14:31:02 EDT
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In article <3490@utah-cs.UUCP> b-davis@utah-cs.UUCP (Brad Davis) writes:
>You can copyright how a video display works.  Have you ever wondered why
>arcade video games are simular but don't have the same screens?  Wouldn't
>it be easy to write a 'Frogger' or a 'Donkey Kong' from scratch and have it
>look just like the real thing?  You could try but you would be sued for
>copyright infringment.  Just like selling soup in a can that had a red top
>half and a white bottom half and a gold shield in the center (Cambell's Soup).
>The law even states that you don't have to duplicate only come close enough
>that a normal person couldn't tell the difference if they just made a
>quick examination of it.

Ok, what if I wrote an exact copy of pacman and then gave it away. Would
anyone be able to sue me?

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