pem@cadnetix.UUCP (Paul Meyer) (01/27/88)
In article <2110@tekred.TEK.COM> billr@tekred.TEK.COM (Bill Randle) writes: >Awhile back I posted a version of the game Ogre that had been >submitted to comp.sources.games. After doing so I received mail >saying that Ogre was a copyrighted game (written|distributed) by >Michael Jackson Games (or similar name; I'll have to dig through >my old mail). There was also some discussion on the net that > [ question on the final opinion of the net, relative to an improved > version now ready to post if it's OK] 1) Ogre is copyrighted and trademarked by Steve Jackson, currently of Steve Jackson Games. 2) The major conflict here is not that the original game has an owner, but that a computer version of the game is also being commercially produced by Origin Systems and distributed by Electronic Arts. 3) Steve Jackson had an account with USENET access as recently as last fall. (Unfortunately I lost the information in our recent move.) I imagine he would not object to the UNIX* version of the game because he's a pretty easy-going guy when people aren't out to scr*w him, but Origin or EA might object depending on their agreements with him. I have crossposted this to rec.games.frp because several people who have inside connections with SJG have been known to read that group. Please edit the Newsgroups header on further followups. -- Paul Meyer pem@cadnetix.UUCP ( hao!boulder!cadnetix!pem) Cadnetix Corp. (hao!isis!ico!cadnetix!pem) 5775 Central Ave. (303)444-8075x244 ( uunet!cadnetix!pem) Boulder, CO 80301