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OS-tans VN : Official Thread

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  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    I was thinking more along the lines of the Microsoft and Apple trademarks.
  • gomidoggomidog
    It's basically the same thing that Ananth and Hawk do in with Eve in Applegeeks and they haven't gotten a Cease and Desist from Apple yet.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    I'm not a lawyer, but I believe it falls under the derivative works section of our copyright law.
    At any rate, has the back-end of this been solidified? Online of Off? Are we going to use flash? Ren'py? Brand new code? Personally, I favor Ren'py due to that the platform is already established and that it's a fairly robust system, allowing for VO, multiple storylines, mini-games, onscreen character movement, and is based on python.
  • SailSail
    I'm not a lawyer, but I believe it falls underthe derivative works section of our copyright law.
    Derivative work right

    The owner of a copyright has the exclusive right to prepare derivative works based on that copyrighted item under 17 U.S.C. § 106(2). US Copyright Office Circular 14: Derivative Works further states that:

    Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work. The owner is generally the author or someone who has obtained rights from the author.

    Thus, one who creates an unauthorized derivative work violates the derivative work right.
    We don't have derivative work right. You're thinking of Creative Commons.
  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    Are you going to sell said game?, if not, then don't worry, I really don't think "the Man" will bother you.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited October 2008
    Copyright law =? Trademark law. This isn't the man we're talking about. This is Apple.
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    Doesn't the internet hold the copyright of the OS-tans? I mean, fair use is/was used to create the characters, but nobody really owns them afaik.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    But the OS tans have trademarks in their names and could be confused with being associated with the companies if mentioned out of context of the game. Think how the Daily Mail would see a game like this.
  • gomidoggomidog
    If we refer to them as 98-tan, me-tan, 2000-tan, XP-tan, Vista-tan I think that will be okay. If you make reference to the trademark/logo - colors, part of name, design elements - without actually going ahead and plastering the windows logo all over everything, then it should probably be safe. Probably.

    ...And who the fuck cares what the Daily Mail thinks? They'd get their pants in a bunch over just about everything. Imagine the uproar if they knew about yaoi.
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