Actually, no. Copyright does not cover the entire game, in particular the idea for a game. At least, according to the U.S Copyright Office. See here.
Tris is most definitely one of the most awesome free applications.
You are right on the first part. However, if a work adds new content/ideas/concepts to the copyright work, the new work is allowed to stand as an original work.
This is how people can copy features in games and add it to their games.
if EA was really Serious Couldn't Apple Use The "Kill Switch?"
Presumably it's because the developer is pulling it, not Apple.This just doesn't pass the smell test to me.
Other apps they've pulled (for various reasons -- no of which were outright stated), they've just done it. No heads up to the developer, nothing. So why set a deadline to when it was going to get pulled? Doesn't make sense.
This just doesn't pass the smell test to me.
Other apps they've pulled (for various reasons -- no of which were outright stated), they've just done it. No heads up to the developer, nothing. So why set a deadline to when it was going to get pulled? Doesn't make sense.
The developer ought to change the name from "Tris" to "Blocks" and re-release it.
That's hardly what the Tris developer did though, did they?It doesn't say you can copy an entire game and just make changes to the colour of the graphics to get round copyright either.