Licensing/book/ issues

jmarte · 2004-04-02T09:42:31

Hi to all. I have a question. Let''s say that you are at your local Barnes and Nobles, and there is a book that interest you. You take the book and read it(or you buy it and read it at home, whatever). The story is so good that you think, "WOW!! this is a great story for a good(rpg, strategy, platform etc. etc) game. Now you try to contact the writer and try to talk a deal with him, and after some missives and E-mail he tell you that, "Due to copyright issues, I can''t grant you a license to implement your game". Now you think "what if I just don''t use his characters and copyright stuff, but base my game in the storyline, and change some stuff from the storyline, and add more stuff to that". Now, that actually happened to me. If I go ahead and do that(change charaters and alter the storyline) could this be an infringment of copyrights law?? P.S. Please forgive my english, is not my first language and in top of that I''m Dyslexic too. _José

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Started by jmarte March 30, 2004 03:09 PM

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April 02, 2004 09:42 AM

Well, thank you all. I think I''ll go to a lawyer. But I''m pretty sure what the outcoming will be(no can do). Damn it''s such a good story. I''ll post the Design doc(when i cleaned it up) for you to see.
BTW, the book(s) are WorldWar by Harry Turtledove, they are great alternate history fiction books.

_José

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