[PIGMI] LLamatron and Space Giraffe

[Andy Hawkins]

Jeff Minter asked to use your friend's samples?  Very cool.  That's like 
Joe Satriani asking me to use of one my solos.

Andy H.
> 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 <mailto: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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>     Subject: [PIGMI] LLamatron and Space Giraffe
>
>     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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