Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Legal aspects of Computer version of the game RISK
Message-ID: <2378@antique.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 88 20:57:51 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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References: <364@soleil.UUCP> <3309@crash.cts.com> <3498@rayssd.ray.com>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)

In article <3498@rayssd.ray.com> gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM (Gregory M. Paris) writes:
>
>Sorry for so much included text, 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?

I don't think Yahtzee is as much of a problem.  Yahtzee is a repackaging
of the game called Yacht, which I remember reading the rules for in a
"Hoyle's Rules of Games"-type (maybe not Hoyle's per se) games book.
I believe that implies Yacht is public domain.  There is probably a
trademark on "Yahtzee", but its look and feel is free.

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