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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Chris Moore <dooglus@gmail.com>
Cc: Chip Coldwell <coldwell@redhat.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tetris trademark
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:10:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BB6B5D.5080107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2hcuczkn9.fsf@gmail.com>

Chris Moore wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>     Is anybody concerned that lisp/play/tetris.el might be a trademark
>>     infringement?
>>
>> File names and function names usually do not raise a trademark issue.
>> So there is no need to worry about this.
> 
> But what about the game itself?  It's not just the name of the file
> and functions, but the Tetris game itself is "subject to the
> registered copyrights of Tetris Holding LLC" (according to
> http://www.tetris.com/).


I think there are some useful notes about this on

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#History

See the end of the History section. It seems like you can not copyright 
a game, but I do not understand the details there.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-27 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-26 21:18 Tetris trademark Chip Coldwell
2007-01-27  4:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-27 13:03   ` Chris Moore
2007-01-27 13:39     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2007-01-27 22:37       ` Chris Moore
2007-01-28 19:54       ` Chong Yidong
2007-01-28 20:23         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2007-01-28 21:34           ` Chong Yidong
2007-01-28 22:41             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2007-01-29  0:54               ` Chris Moore
2007-02-02 23:57                 ` Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ + Chong Yidong
2007-01-27 15:10     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-01-28  7:41     ` Tetris trademark Richard Stallman
2007-01-27 14:58 ` Leo

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