I'm in a questionative mood the other day as I wandered town and I got to thinking about copyright laws. The idea of copyright laws are that the creator of an idea has the entitlement to profits produced by the idea pattented by him/her eg:
I'm gonna make a game about people who have lots of pets that we love, make them fight each other and then say we know nohting about... i'll call it Pokemon.
Copyright law gives the creator of the game (and the game designers etc.) full rights over the game. so they get to choose the price the game will be sold at etc. but when does copyright law go too far?
"Alright, I thought of this game, I made this game and if it weren't for me it wouldn't exist. so I get the right to say that only people in america can play it for the first three months... I can say the game will cost £40 making me (once the liscence fees are paid and designer saleries etc.) roughly £34 a game after shipping and production costs. giving me a salary of about £130k a year for at least three years..."
In that case...
you made this game, I- using a cartridge writer- have made my own game. Why cant I sell it? because of copyright laws. because it is your idea you get "full" rights to it. and I DO agree with it, but there comes a certain point when they go too far.
people who (still using pokemon for this argument) make digimon have to dodge around certain aspects of their games now (even if they also had their original idea, they can't do it because somebody else said it first) Spinnoffs and parodies can get sued if they don't say things like "these r not v characters. and if u fink they luk like em it jus a coincidence!" and that because they are the only people allowed to make the game they will charge stupid prices, and then you get a message during installation or startup "visit the www.richbastard.com website and get upgrades for the game- you paid for the game, but not enough..."
What do you all think the creators of games should have rights to? and when do they abuse those rights?
I'm gonna make a game about people who have lots of pets that we love, make them fight each other and then say we know nohting about... i'll call it Pokemon.
Copyright law gives the creator of the game (and the game designers etc.) full rights over the game. so they get to choose the price the game will be sold at etc. but when does copyright law go too far?
"Alright, I thought of this game, I made this game and if it weren't for me it wouldn't exist. so I get the right to say that only people in america can play it for the first three months... I can say the game will cost £40 making me (once the liscence fees are paid and designer saleries etc.) roughly £34 a game after shipping and production costs. giving me a salary of about £130k a year for at least three years..."
In that case...
you made this game, I- using a cartridge writer- have made my own game. Why cant I sell it? because of copyright laws. because it is your idea you get "full" rights to it. and I DO agree with it, but there comes a certain point when they go too far.
people who (still using pokemon for this argument) make digimon have to dodge around certain aspects of their games now (even if they also had their original idea, they can't do it because somebody else said it first) Spinnoffs and parodies can get sued if they don't say things like "these r not v characters. and if u fink they luk like em it jus a coincidence!" and that because they are the only people allowed to make the game they will charge stupid prices, and then you get a message during installation or startup "visit the www.richbastard.com website and get upgrades for the game- you paid for the game, but not enough..."
What do you all think the creators of games should have rights to? and when do they abuse those rights?