[PIGMI] LLamatron and Space Giraffe

[Paul Turbett (Black Lab Games)]

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
Sent: Friday, 18 March 2011 7:28 PM
To: pigmi at pigmi.org
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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