[quote author=MetaFox link=board=dcemu;num=1091227578;start=45#57 date=08/01/04 at 03:04:00]
Tetris is not copyrighted by Nintendo, the copyright holder is Tetris Company, LLC. Creating a clone, even for commercial use is not illegal, as long as you don't use graphics or names from the original source. This would make our DC tetris games technically illegal - Those that use part or whole of the name in the game or a similar name (ie: Tetris, Tetris Clone, Clonetris, TetrisCD, Tetris 2, or -tris - Clonetris, and similar named games - Titris), and those that use graphics from the original source (ie: DCQuad). If I made a Tetris game with completely original graphics, and called it MetaFox's Generic Clone - it wouldn't be illegal. (Copyright laws are peculiar in that regard).[/quote]
If that's the case, then does that mean that commercial games like "Wordtris", etc. are licensed by Tetris, LLC?
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