[Freeciv] Re: monopoly power of game developers

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Van Every
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> > > This is a justification for ripping off a developer's intellectual
> property?
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> > There is no such thing as "intellectual property".
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> So if you write a screenplay it's ok if I just take your screenplay,
> make a movie out of it, don't pay you, and get rich?
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No. Not okay. But if you see the movie an make one strikingly similar, yet
different in key ways, I might be miffed, but fair dos anyway. Especially if
your similar version brought something new to the film.


SamBC