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and that is certainly not legal advice, just a bit of history as best as I can remember.
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<font color="black" size="2" face="arial">I'm certainly not a legal expert, but something for the Falconeers to look into, as I understand it any song that is changed at least 33% is a new song. So the original artist of a song that has been changed by at least 33% has no rights to it. This was ruled back in the late 70's early 80's with weird al and some other comedians that made profit by changing a song and made profit from doing it. <br>
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So if it was me I would at least change at least 33% of the program, maybe just change the menus and graphics. Just like those songs where it basic beat/rhythm/ aka engine of the song remained the same and just the lyrics changed.<br>
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Mike<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Joseph Fagner wrote:
> This has been going on at BMS for years. I think the general consensus from
> Hasbro has been as long as no one commercializes it or tries to make money
> off it, stay under the radar, they won't do a thing about it. It's 15 year
> old source code that's been out for as long. They had plenty of time to
> "defend" their IP rights. But we all know this sim will never see the light
> of day again commercially and I don't think Hasbro wants to waste any money
> defending something that's been on the loose for 15 years and that would be
> a money loser if they tried. They might very well lose as it would be
> impossible to prove damages and the fact they never tried to "defend" it
> before.
>
Haven't there been commercial products based on the Falcon4 source tree in
the past?
Which of the many forks out there is the "most" current and active?
tnx.
g.
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