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Old 10-10-2010, 10:24 PM   #37
ConstantineXVI
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Originally Posted by mdovell View Post
I'm not advocating copyright infrindgement but....

Sometimes with earlier games there's been so many psedo copies it would be next to impossible to sue everyone.

How many knock offs have we seen of say..Tetris and Asteroids?

If you type in "play zork zero" you'll get plenty of google responses.
You can't "clone" interactive fiction without infringing copyright. The mechanics have been re-used over and over (see the Inform engine), but IF is nothing without the story itself, which is copyrighted.
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