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Post: 25716425_1 created on Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:17 amPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:17 am
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I'm sorry, but due to the hastened current of life I now find myself pulled by, I cannot keep this petition, or even my activity on gaia itself, up to date and will have to cease it's advancement for at least the time being.
---stingray2. Don't PM me telling me you want to sign! Just post it here and I'll update it when I can.  This is a petition for the addition of Gaian Tetris to the games.  Also known as: GAIA BLOX Are you a Tetris Lover? SHOUT IT FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS...or at least sign the petition. Most everyone loves tetris, and it's quite a simple game. I think it'd be a great addition to the site. There's already tetris clothing in the shops, why not have the game? If you agree - and I know you do - Show some support for the game!! Six ways to show your support: 1) Post clearly that you're signing. 2) You can add the banner and link to your sigs. 3) Bump the topic to keep it visible 4) Tell your friends 5) Post in other threads so people see the banner/link. 6) Click the "thumbs-up" rating for this thread!! Spread the Love!  Let's Keep it up there!! Oh, and Great News! <©Copyright stuff©> Kava Items from Movies, Games, and other Copyrighted Media (Update: 6-30-05) "We need GI's like they have in DBZ!!! And Lightsabres with Jedi Outfits! Oh, and Harry Potter outfits too!" We've all either seen suggestions like these hundreds of times, or been the ones to make the suggestions. Well, the thing that comes up just about every time someone makes a suggestion like this is, "They can't make that, it's copyrighted!" Before anything else is said, please consider how many of the items you've seen around Gaia resemble items from anime, manga, movies, games, TV shows, or other popular media. If you said none, then you're definitely just not aware of it. Many of Gaia's current items are very similar to popular clothing and items from various media. Obviously, exact replicas of copyrighted clothing and items cannot be created for Gaia. However, it's not infrequent that we get clothing or items that have only small differences, the same way that you'll find generic brands of various name-brand items in a grocery store. So, you want to suggest items from movies, games, anime, and other copyrighted media? You can! You'll probably never get exact replicas of them, but you never know when we might get a Gaia version of something. To clarify, for the forum regulars: this means that pointing out to someone that they are suggesting a copyrighted item and that an exact duplicate cannot be made is completely unneccessary and irrelevant to the suggestion. The site administrators are not going to create any items that would involve them in copyright infringement, however, neither do they expect every user on Gaia to be familiar with copyright laws. Nor is having knowledge and understanding of copyright information a requirement to posting suggestions in the Site Feedback forum. Keeping this in mind, suggestions about items of this type will NOT be recycled unless they also fall under a different FMI category. Users are also requested to NOT reply to these threads with any sort of deterrent simply because someone doesn't specify a 'similar' or 'like' item instead of suggesting an actual copyrighted item. GinoLeTV Although there is a Tetris Company apparently. Below is part of what a website says about the copyrights on Tetris. Quote: US Copyright Law An idea or concept can not be copyrighted. The Tetris Company's code, graphics, music (etc) is copyrighted, but the actual concept can not be. They can copyright the written rules to the game, but they can't actually copyright the generic rules themselves. This means if I copied out a section of their HOW TO PLAY manual I would be infringing copyright. At www.bitlaw.com they say the following: "Ideas, procedures, principles, discoveries, and devices are all specifically excluded from copyright protection. As stated in the Copyright Act: In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." Ideas can be patented, however The Tetris Company is not claiming a patent on Tetris. They are claiming a "look and feel" copyright. This article at www.computerlaw.com (a law firm specialising in software) goes in-depth as to how "look and feel" can be valid or invalid. It is also interesting to note that it state look and feel copyright can be additionally protected as a trade dress. The Tetris Company are also claiming they have trade dress copyright. Another point that might be important is that a company needs to defend a trademark for it to be valid. Since tetris clones have been out since around since it was invented and we haven't heard from them until now, one could possibly argue that they have lost any valid trademarks they had. We can view the records of the US Copyright Office via their webpage. We get to a telnet site where we can look up copyright records. The Tetris Company does not appear to be listed anywhere throughout these records. I would like to mention that stuff in that quote was written by [X] |
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