Ahplabs.324 net.games.pacman utzoo!decvax!cca!sri-unix!hplabs!hansen Mon Apr 19 09:39:43 1982 Re: ATARI policy towards similar games ...copyrighting the screen image doesn't seem fair. I have worked for some time in the typesetting industry, where the copyright laws gave very little protection from copies of typeface designs. It turns out that the typeface design itself was not 'copyrightable,' only the name of the typeface design. Consequently, other companies would copy the typeface design and give it a different name. We couldn't touch them. Any attempt by Atari to circumvent that ruling without asking for revision of the copyright laws should be bound to failure. As to expecting any revision, many of you may recall that many major changes to the copyright laws were made a few years ago. The issue above was under consideration, but was rejected (the company I was working for was lobbying for a change at the time). ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.