Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Infinite Improbability Drive

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/02 at 9:49 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:

>> >> >>Finally, even if I *were* to vote yes, I'd probably CFI that, even
>if
>> >> >it's
>> >> >>technically a prose prop, it should earn zero prose prop points
>since
>> >>the
>> >> >>Baron didn't actually, like, you know, whatcha call, write the
>prose.
>> >> >>Perhaps we can give points to Douglas Adams' estate instead.
>> >> >-Ah, got you there. That's the bit at the beginning, where I say "The
>> >> >following is an excerpt from _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
>by
>> >> >Douglas Adams, specifically the entirety of Chapter 9 of that book.
>> >> >Although
>> >> >the sections in comment brackets should be removed as though this
>were
>>a
>> >> >Literary Proposal, that text is not original and Baron von Skippy
>will
>> >>not
>> >> >be given Prose Form points for the passing of this proposal."
>Although
>>I
>> >> >could counter-CFI that nowhere does it say in the rules that a Prose
>> >Prop
>> >> >(or a poetry one, for that matter) has to be original.-
>> >>
>> >>Or any prop.  Still, there is the matter of international
>> >>copyright...Should there be some rule that says the game itself and the
>> >>playerbase as a whole isn't responsible for the RL crimes of individual
>> >>players?
>> >-Well, I'm not selling or publishing, I'm only proposing, and I don't
>> >think
>> >any copyright laws prohibit that.-
>>
>>Yeah, but if it passes and you get points from it, you're profiting from
>>it.  So you'll have to give all the points you earn from it to the
>Gremlin
>>Fund or...make sure it doesn't pass. :)
>>
>>						Glotmorf
>>
>-I credited the guy already... leave me alone. I am not sabotaging my
>proposal so that I'm not stealing 3d6 points from the estate of Douglas
>Adams.-

*sigh* It's times like this that I almost miss uin.  You know damn well that by now e'd've already changed eir name to "the estate of Douglas Adams" and started work on the CFI...

						Glotmorf


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