On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:42:05 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:07:04 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > If the "remake" copies copyrighted elements from the other game > > (characters, story/plot, dialogs, or, worse, graphics/sounds), [...] > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > Remember that as ideas, stories and plots are never copyrightable. > Particular *expressions* of them are. So wholesale copying of story or > plot from a game (or book, or movie or whatever) with all it's > nuances would indeed make a derivative work, but just having the same > general story or plot would not. Yes, I should have been clearer: when I said "story/plot", I meant the detailed story with all its nuances, while I included the concept of general story or plot inside the term "basic idea". P.S.: Please do not Cc: me, as I didn't ask you to do so. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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