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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: ogre wont compile
Message-ID: <478@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 09:23:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.478
Posted: Thu Aug 13 09:23:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:02:48 EDT
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Summary: The answer is (4).
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In article <349@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
|In article <456@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
|>Beware... the game "OGRE" is copyrighted by Steve Jackson games. Steve
|>Jackson is, I am given to understand, a litigious fella. That means he's
|>heavily into taking vigorous legal action to defend his rights.
|
|I am slightly confused here, are you saying:
|
|	(1)	The name "OGRE" is a trademark (registered or not) of
|		Steve Jackson games.  It's not possible to my knowledge
|		to copyright a single word.
|
|	(2)	Steve Jackson games distributes a copyrighted work that
|		is similar to but not derived from (or vice versa) the
|		"ogre" game recently distributed over the net.
|
|	(3)	Steve Jackon games owns the copyright to the "ogre" game
|		distributed over the net.
|
|	(4)	Something other than (1), (2), or (3) above...
|
|-Fred

Steve Jackson Games distributes a copyrighted work called "OGRE", from which
the "ogre" game distributed over the net has been derived. The rules are
absolutely identical. The playing board is absolutely identical. The graphics
are better on the original :->. There is a commercial computer game called
OGRE that is also directly based on Steve Jackson's game, and which is either
published by SJG or by someone who pays royalties to SJG.

OGRE was Steve Jackson's first succesful product when it was first published
as Microgame #1. Now, Steve has not been too scrupulous about using other
people's work without credit... but he hasn't violated any copyrights that
I'm aware of. Do him the same courtesy.

If you want to keep "OGRE" around, call it "BOLO" and change the rules some.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)