[PIGMI] LLamatron and Space Giraffe

[Dan Venkitachalam]

If it is indeed a sample I'm pretty sure he would have cleared it.  A friend
of mine did some sounds for his own game and was contacted by Jeff (or
Giles?) for permission to include them in Minotaur.


Dan.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Paul Turbett (Black Lab Games) <
paul at blacklabgames.com.au> wrote:

> I think if they are the actual sound files from the Williams games, it's a
> copyright violation. If they are created from scratch but happen to sound
> the same, it's (probably) ok. Copyright is for the protection of the
> expression of a idea/concept, not the idea/concept itself.
>
> L8r, Paul
>
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> [mailto:pigmi-pigmi.org-bounces at lists.pigmi.org] On Behalf Of Andy Hawkins
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>
> Just been playing Minotaur by Llamasoft, and after reading his bio I
> found about Jeff Minter's Xbox game Space Giraffe.  So I've been playing
> that this evening.
>
> One thing I was curious about though was that he uses sound effects in
> there from Defender, Blaster, Robotron and Sinistar - all Williams
> copyright.  Is that allowed these days????
>
> Space Giraffe is awesome.
>
> Andy H.
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