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Unlicensed/Unauthorized games?
MisterCreazil:
homebrew is illegal?
Doom:
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In most cases, yes. Especially the kind of homebrew that had covers for them hosted here. Half-Life DC, for example, would be the usual copyright infringement and then probably stuff involved with trade secrets because it was leaked. Maybe we could get by saying that it's just concept art or something, but I'm not sure how much money Snowcone would want to spend on a lawyer willing to fight a large company. It's not worth it.
I hate "the man" as much as anyone else, but I'd hate to lose TCP, and this decreases the likelihood of it happening. If we leave it at that and stop talking about how awesome the covers for the homebrew stuff is, we'll be better off.
MisterCreazil:
They'd probably just send a cease and desist if they had a problem with it, no big deal, I don't really know what you're scared of seeing as nothing has happened yet. It all sounds overly cautious to me. Anyways it's not my site so I won't say anymore on the matter.
shenske:
--- Quote from: MisterCreazil on June 11, 2009, 12:28:01 AM ---homebrew is illegal?
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Many times yes, most homebrew games you unauthorized sprites from other games. Sprites could be of the main characters, the antogonists, backgrounds, items etc. Its just best not to push it and keep the site going :)
Doom's thread he started in the general discussion will be easy to navigate and download the covers.
Doom:
--- Quote from: MisterCreazil on June 11, 2009, 01:22:19 AM ---They'd probably just send a cease and desist if they had a problem with it, no big deal, I don't really know what you're scared of seeing as nothing has happened yet. It all sounds overly cautious to me. Anyways it's not my site so I won't say anymore on the matter.
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If they send a C&D, it'd probably be for all covers related to their company. But if they never see those types of covers in the first place, a C&D might never get sent.
It is very paranoid. I thought that was obvious.