Awatmath.2210 net.games.pacman utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Sat Apr 17 22:02:02 1982 Re: ATARI policy towards similar games I have been told that Atari's attempts to fight copiers have involved copyrighting the screen image, as well as the pictures of the monsters and the pacman. In this way if somebody has a pacman program that draws something like a pacman maze or a creature that looks like a pacman, they say - Hey, he stole our copyrighted design of a screen. This is quite valid. Protecting an idea is another study. The mechanism for that is the patent, and such things are almost never given for software. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.