[z-machine] reimplementations and copyright

[trout@netspace.net.au]

Quoting Dave <dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu>:

> On Fri, 30 May 2003 trout@netspace.net.au wrote:
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> > The rights to Shadowgate are currently owned by Infinite Ventures Ltd=
,
> > who are marketing it and the other ICOM titles in versions for PDAs
> > (and Windows).
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> > You can contact them via their website:
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> > http://www.infiniteventures.com/contact.shtml
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> Looks good.  Have you any idea how to best approach them for permission=
 to
> distribute my conversion?
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No. Not really.=20

You could try contacting someone who's previously gained permission to re=
lease=20
an IF conversion of a commercial game. For example, Volker Lanz=20
(volker.lanz@gmx.net) wrote an Inform port of Deadline as a coding exerci=
se and=20
subsequently obtained Activision's permission to release it through the I=
F=20
Archive as source code.

Off hand, I can't think of any other examples where a game that's still=20
commercially available has been ported to IF (unless you count FooM, Pier=
s=20
Johnson's presumably unauthorised IF conversion of the first level of Doo=
m to=20
TADS).

Steve


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