Re: PACMAN for the GS

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <jeffsterDqn3pE.13s@netcom.com>,
The Jeffster! <jeffster@netcom.com> wrote:
>Hehehehehe I bet that copyright is in your name, huh. Yer not cool Kohn, 
>and you know shareware is not to cause disputes like this. You MUST be 
>joking if you think Turley's actually gonna get punishment for this 
>crappola. Shareware was created so it could be distributed freely. This 
>is not a matter of copyright. It is a matter of YOU THINKING YOU'RE SO 
>COOL. And I doubt many people are on your side, jerky.

   Pacman & Ms. Pacman are shareware? Funny, I seem to recall arcades
full of upright consoles with them, as well as seeing it in
stores. The fact that Dr. Tom, you (if you are different from him,
which remains yet to be proven), and others are trying to deny is that
those two pieces of software are COMMERCIAL software.

   As to copyrights expiring, the U.S.A. is a signatory to the Berne
convention on that, which states (along with lots of other things) the
following: copyrights last the authors' life plus 50 years. Those
arcade games date back to 1980 at the earliest. Even if the authors
died the second the game was released, they'd still be copyrighted.

   Dr. Tom may have ingested enough controlled substances (Marijuana
is controlled, his wishes to the contrary not counting for jack; crack
is also) to make him feel like the early 1980s was over 50 years ago,
but the passage of time for copyrights is not in the eye of the
mentally distrubed.

   Trying to claim that you've got a lot of people on your side is
pointless.  The law is the law, period.

Nathan Mates

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