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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!rrward
From: rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward)
Subject: Re: JURASSIC DOOM?
Message-ID: <rrwardCvE7wv.BGG@netcom.com>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <33u67c$7km@news.iastate.edu> <25913.403.uupcb@filebank.cts.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 09:34:07 GMT
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In article <25913.403.uupcb@filebank.cts.com> aj.peterson@filebank.cts.com (Aj Peterson) writes:
>-> Uhm...if you think Lucas came down on the Star Wars WADS fast and
>-> hard, I'd think it would be flirting with fire if you tried a
>-> "Jurassic Park" theme. A dinosaur theme, sure, but don't get
>-> specific with it.
>
>Boy, I whish there was a way we could stop this. We need a Net lawyer.
>There is absolutly no way they should be able to mess with any of this
>stuff. It's all for free. And if we could fight it on that basis, and
>fix whatever other legal loopholes, it MIGHT be possible to beat those
>MEGABASTARDS. Like Mikey Mouse. It would be SO COOL to give Disney a
>black eye. AND get them to leave people alone who are hurting nobody,
[drivel deleted]
AJ, what part of the term "ownership" do you not understand? It makes _no_
difference if you are making money or not. What matters is that you are
violating someone elses copyright. You see, when someone (be it a loley
artist in a shack in some small backwoods town or a huge corporation in Los
Angeles or New York) creates something, they _own_ it. They get to decide how
it gets used and by whome. A copyright is someones way of enforcing that
ownership on creations that are not of a physical nature (the words in a book,
the sounds on a CD, the code in a progrm), nothing more.
Would it be morally acceptible to steal physical objects? If not, why is it
right to steal intelectual objects?
If Disney does not want their work to be used by those who have not payed for
it, it is their right. They _own_ the materials thay have created (and no
matter how nasty their legal department is, that fact is not changed). If
Steven Spielburg (sp?) or Geeorge Lucas do not want their work used by people
who have not recieved permission to do so, it is their right to try to stop
those persons with whatever tools the law allows.
You are missing the whole poi. It does not matter what you are using it for,
if you use someone else's work without the authorization to do so, it is
illegal and you can be arrested for it. (this aplies to illegally
duplicating, but that is another thread).
Richard
PS: AJ, would you PLEASE leave in the "so-and-so said" (what are they
called?) lines?