[freeciv-data] Re: Re: Cevo2 -still copyrighted pics in the unit set-

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> > I haven't looked at it, but I do _not_ agree that "different enough" is
> > OK. If a copyrighted work by Microprose was used as the original, it is
> > not OK, no matter how much extra pixels you add to it.
>
> Copyright law speaks of "derivative work" after all.
> (Dutch copyright law does so in Dutch.  I'm sure all countries
>  subscribed to the Berne convention use similar terms.)

IANAL but AFAIK the copyright holder has the sole right to make derivative
works.

Yours,
Per

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continued getting in the way and dying as a
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