RE: Strategy games (was something else and Texture mapping)

[Rick Genter <RGenter@ibasis.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik [mailto:br0ke@math.smsu.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 1:10 PM
To: linuxgames@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: RE: Strategy games (was something else and Texture mapping)


Does anyone know how long those copyrights run? Are they the same length as
written works (books, I think 50 yrs)? If all the sudden linux had games
with
comparable gfx/sound and SUPERIOR gameplay and fun, that would really
generate
some posative attention I'd think. 

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Copyrights are the same, regardless of the medium (paper or electronic). A
copyright is valid for 75 years or 50 years past the death of the author,
whichever is *longer*. Since the copyright is actually held by the publisher
for video games, the copyright is effectively infinite.

Rick
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