Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!brspyr1!tim From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Legal aspects of Computer version of the game RISK Message-ID: <4292@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Date: 18 Aug 88 17:39:23 GMT References: <3498@rayssd.ray.com> Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 27 From article <3498@rayssd.ray.com>, by gmp@rayssd.ray.com (Gregory M. Paris): > In article <3309@crash.cts.com> andym@crash.CTS.COM (Andy Micone) writes: Included text about Parker Brothers copyright on RISK deleted ... > ... but I had wondered about this when the > computer version of Yahtzee was posted to comp.sources.games a while > back. It would seem to me that the author (and distributor?) of that > game would be in the same boat as the hypothetical RISK computer-gamer ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > mentioned above. True? > -- > Greg ParisThis is not hypothetical. Tone Engle (sp?) released a Mac version of RISK about a year ago (actually someone else posted it, he got a little miffed, but then decided to let it go). Does this mean he in deep trouble? At the time he said he approached Parker Brothers with the intent of letting them market it, and they were not interested. ... for what it is worth. -- Tim Northrup +------------------------------------------+ +---------------------------------+ GEnie: T.Northrup | UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!brspyr1!tim | Air Warrior: "Duke" | ARPA: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com +------------------------------------------+