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From: rwallace@cs.tcd.ie (Russell Wallace)
Subject: Re: Copyrighted characters in adventures
Message-ID: <1994Apr24.003516.21518@cs.tcd.ie>
Organization: Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
References: <1994Apr22.113740.4946@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 00:35:16 GMT
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bfa1225@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:



>  Hi, I have just started dabbling with various adventure game builders,
>and I have a legality question.  
>   If I use copyrighted character(s), what permission, if any , do I
>need to obtain?  These games would be freeware, btw.
> For instance, there is a game called Alice, created using AGT. 
>The author put "Based on characters by Lewis Carroll", but I didn't
>see any other notice.  If someone could clear this up, that would
>be great.  Thanks.

Alice in Wonderland is out of copyright, being more than 50 years after
the author's death.  Anything that is still in copyright, you can't use
the characters without permission, so if you want to use characters from
a contemporary book, the best thing to do is to forget about it.  Sorry
:)

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