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Doom, id, and copyright issues

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BDR:

--- Quote from: Almafeta on February 08, 2007, 20:45 ---Even if he does live in the US, in taking "donations" for his work, he's pretty much negating any chance of a fair-use defense if id decides to sue him.

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There's a guy named Brian who has similarly produced a fan work using copyrighted sprites from Final Fantasy 1; he takes donations (and happens to be very popular, so I find it difficult to believe Squeenix has no knowledge at all of his work); and he has not had issues.  I'd say the usage of material there is at least as extensive as in DoomRL.

Almafeta:

--- Quote from: BDR on February 09, 2007, 01:08 ---There's a guy named Brian who has similarly produced a fan work using copyrighted sprites from Final Fantasy 1; he takes donations (and happens to be very popular, so I find it difficult to believe Squeenix has no knowledge at all of his work); and he has not had issues.  I'd say the usage of material there is at least as extensive as in DoomRL.
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That falls under parody, which is an entirely different section of the law altogether.

Santiago Zapata:

--- Quote from: Almafeta on February 09, 2007, 06:31 ---That falls under parody, which is an entirely different section of the law altogether.

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That sounds interesting, I wonder if DoomRL could be considered a parody of Doom? :D

MadCoder:
Yes, I looked at the site and I agree - it's comic humor, not reproduced artwork for a game.  But I can see why you thought that.


So the wall kicked my butt over and over.  I finally kicked back with several rocket rounds and my chaingun.  As far as a reward goes, I was expecting something...more?  Well, the reward was still worth it.


Now if I can just beat the Cathedral...........soon...I will soon...

Gamera:
If he contacts them and they don't C&D him they will be giving him de facto permission to use their intellectual property and may lose a court case if they ever need to force him to stop. So as long as they know about it but don't have any correspondence they can pretend not to know about it and still retain the option to protect their IP. So it's best not to force the issue by contacting them directly.

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