Re: [piecepack] Re: New game added to the wiki: Piecepack Isle

[Curufea <curufea@...>]

Rights on works and manifestations vary according to country - a good start is
to credit the work.  Ideally (as I've recommended recently to a roleplaying
website) - you should talk to the work's creator about accreditation and
derivative works or manifestations.  Only then can you actually be sure what
you're doing is the right thing.

If the creator doesn't know, recommend they go with their country's copyright
laws.

 Peter Cobcroft
curufea@...
Main: http://www.curufea.com/




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From: sshum2003 <sshum2003@...>
To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 11 November, 2010 11:29:05 AM
Subject: [piecepack] Re: New game added to the wiki: Piecepack Isle


Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
>
> Yes. The rules for the Good Portsmanship contest covered this.
>
> http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/pp7.html
>
> Ron

sshum2003:  Meaningless and doesn't comply with copyright law.  That comes from
the Copyright Office website but doesn't refect copyright law.

>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, littlebrothertimmy
> <littlebrothertimmy@...> wrote:
> > You're welcome :-)
> >
> > I explicitly did not add anything about the rights, since the original game
>is still available. The rules I made are not mine, so I have no rights over
>them. I just adapted the original rules, so this game can be played with the
>piecepack system.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to handle a situation like this? Am I allowed to have
>some kind of power over rules that aren't really mine (in the sense that I can
>say these rules can be coppied, modified, and/or redistributed)?

sshum2003:  Given a port is a derivative work, the "porter" only has right in
"translation" into a piecepack.  The base game still is copyrighted by the
original designer.


So Piecepack Isle's copyright info should read:

Piecepack Isle
(c) Roger
based on Forbidden Island (c) original designer (or company)







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