COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

this 'toy' is totally ripping off fallingsandgame.com and everything they stand for. do not play it. if you must, rate it 0. good day.

It's a simple remake of the games at fallingsandgame.com. I'm pretty sure that it's not copyright infringement.

wow what a cool game i would so sue if it were mine cuz i mean the game is all that

haha wow really

Copyright i dont think so

LMAO
It's a variant of the falling sand game. I doubt the website you listed was the first to come up with the idea. There have been many variations on the computer and even Iphone apps. You even admitted it yourself. It's not copyright since its open source so I don't know why even started this thread. In conclusion, get off your high horse.

You can't copyright concepts like these. If that were true, think how much games like Tetris, Pacman and Mario would have made from law-suites? Clones are made ALL the time and there's nothing at all illegal about it, credit certainly doesn't have to be given. Especially considering that Chris' is made from scratch.

Toby, those games were all copyrighted. after a term of however long, that copyright expires, and clones are then made. citing the U.S. Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

What is copyright?
Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works.

What does copyright protect?
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.

Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created.

/end citation.

taken from wikipedia.org on the subject of copyright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain.

i'm not saying wikipedia knows everything. the pages are open source for every user.

_{you people take things so literally}

lulz steven, lulz. the falling sand game was developed by one person, under the name "falling sand".

you idiot, the original falling sand game was created/published way before any phone could even have applications, much less the onset of the iphone.

how rude of you to suggest that i believe myself better than other people here. i'm only calling for credit where credit is due.

the toy has all the same particle effects and interactions and reactions that the original falling sand had.

oh, and haze: go play by yourself. this thread has enough spam from imbeciles. it doesn't need your "input". good day sir.

i said Good Day!

Moreover, what is it that can only be called "morality"? or "honesty"?

why do i believe that this is, in it's lesser form, copyright infringement? because there's no credits.

he may have created this toy from scratch, but so was the original falling sand game.

sure, there was no copyright attached or registerred or acknowledged, to either the original falling sand game or this 'toy', but that's not what i want.

that catchy title up there was only for... publicity.

and somehow everyone thinks this is all about me. or maybe that's just me thinking too much. either way, it's not.

it's about credit. i don't wish to start a lawsuit battle over copyrights. i want credit where credit is due.

Don't act like you know law please when you obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Yes the original game IS protected by copyright law in the way of the works that were made themselves, not the concept. As long as code / graphical / sound elements themselves are not take from the game and all new products are created by the author then an almost exact clone doesn't qualify as copyright infringement.

Learn what you're talking about before you preach it please. Even the original author would agree with this.

Locked for pointlessness and the original posters general unpleasantness.

If you have any further inquiries, feel free to contact the original author - he will also point out the error in your argument.