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<blockquote data-quote="Pinballwiz45b" data-source="post: 198685" data-attributes="member: 1051"><p>"Atari's" Facebook ratings plummeted from 4 to 3. Hope this will wake them up. Also:</p><p></p><p>"Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form." (Source: <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html" target="_blank">http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html</a>)</p><p></p><p>What boggles me even more is that THERE ARE CLONES of Tempest 2000 on every other platform, including mobile devices. Yet they only go after Jeff's TxK. And the trademark of Tempest 2000 was lapsed in 2006, so basically making the claim invalid. "Atari" even haven't announced another Tempest game after the trademark lapsed.</p><p></p><p>Even further, they're going into the gambling and casino business.</p><p></p><p>Suck it, Infogrames. You'll lose. #freethellama</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pinballwiz45b, post: 198685, member: 1051"] "Atari's" Facebook ratings plummeted from 4 to 3. Hope this will wake them up. Also: "Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form." (Source: [url]http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html[/url]) What boggles me even more is that THERE ARE CLONES of Tempest 2000 on every other platform, including mobile devices. Yet they only go after Jeff's TxK. And the trademark of Tempest 2000 was lapsed in 2006, so basically making the claim invalid. "Atari" even haven't announced another Tempest game after the trademark lapsed. Even further, they're going into the gambling and casino business. Suck it, Infogrames. You'll lose. #freethellama [/QUOTE]
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