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1. Christopher Allan Webber disturbing , Kat Walsh

   http://ur1.ca/9kcjv Public Knowledge article on Tetris copyright decision is highly !disturbing (via @mindspillage)

   about 11 months ago from web at Chicago, Illinois, United States Repeated by robmyers
2. Christopher Allan Webber disturbing , Kat Walsh

   http://ur1.ca/9kcjv Public Knowledge article on Tetris copyright decision is highly !disturbing (via @mindspillage)

   about 11 months ago from web at Chicago, Illinois, United States
   • Rob Myers repeated this.
   • Christopher Allan Webber disturbing

     Elements such as general rule of pieces falling not copyrightable, but apparently the size of the grid and the shapes of the pieces are.

     about 11 months ago
   • drysdam

     But tetris pieces are a pre-existing !mathematical set (tetrominoes) that are a special case of polyminoes. Surely not copyrightable.

     about 11 months ago