Questions tagged [games]
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What legal force do "No Ball Games" signs have?
There is a campaign to bring down thousands of “no ball games” signs across London and the UK.
The examples discussed have been put up by a housing association, L&Q, in west London and others are at the Mursell estate in Stockwell. The area that…
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Copying a parody of a movie using a fan's 3D model
I really like a board game. This game includes artistic references (as parody) to a well-known movie.
I wanted to improve the pieces of the board game (which were 2-dimensional) to augment my own experience playing it. This led me to create a 3D…
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Could Sony have gotten away with not giving out refunds for Concord legally?
Concord a digital game was sold as a license, which they can terminate at any time.
Due to low players numbers they stopped selling the game, took the servers offline and refunded everyone who bought it after only a few weeks.
But what if they…
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Non-commercial Tabletop RPGs using the Games Workship IP guidelines?
It was suggested I post here instead of RPG stackoverflow :)
I’m trying to figure out to what extent fan Tabletop RPGs set in the 40k universe are allowed, clearly anything commercial is off the table — but as soon as it is explicitly…
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How is Null Signal Games able to make more Netrunner sets without violating copyright?
Null Signal Games has been publishing new sets for the 2012 Netrunner living card game since Fantasy Flight Games lost their license in 2018. How are Null Signal Games able to publish content for a game made by another company without violating…
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Claiming a copycat version of a well-known, out of print board game is similar to the original
Under intellectual property law, is it permissible to create a version of an out-of-print board game that is protected by copyright, but not by patent, by changing its design elements (cards, game pieces, packaging, name, logo, and symbols) while…
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Exactly what part of a game can be under copyright or patent?
I have searched the internet and I have understood that copyright will cover the names and graphics of games while patents are for the idea/mechanics of the game.
My questions are:
Am I right?
If so how can be so many trading card games/collectible…
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