Are scenarios copyrighted?

[Big Ivan]

Good morning folks,

In reference to my statement above, the following note appears on page 239 of the old EFII Manual as supplied with the Talonsoft EFII disk.

First Paragraph:

"Talonsoft grants the buyer of this software package the right to use one copy of the enclosed software program. You may not use it across a network, unless in conjunction with another legitimate copy, rent or lease it, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or modify the software in any way. All editors may be used to creat scenarios that may be freely distributed provided that no monitary profit will be required or gained, and scenarios are distributed in a non-commercial manner. Talonsoft has the ultimate right to ALL scenarios created from this software. You may not copy or distribute copies of the enclosed written material.

Second Paragraph:

The inclosed software program, libraries, graphics and all written material are the sole property of Talonsoft Inc and its suppliers and are protected under the copyright laws of the USA and all International Treaties.


Now,
Under the manual that came with the JTCS software it says this on the last page of the book:

"The enclosed software program and its manual are copyrighted. All rights reserved. The original purchaser may print or have a print/copy shop make a printout and/or copy of the manual. Matrix publishing, LLC grants the original purchaser of this software package the right to use one copy of the software program. You may not rent or lease it, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or modify the software in any way. All editors may be used to create scenarios that may be freely distributed. All scenario authors hold the ultimate rights to their designed scenarios and Matrix Publishing LLC makes no claim thereof. You may not copy or distribute copies in any media form. Any persons doing so shall be guilty of copyright violation and subject to the appropriate civil or criminal action at the discretion of the copyright holder."

So in essence that is a big change as now the original author holds the rights to any scenario developed using the Matrix editors.
Hope this helps.

Ivan the Big:smoke: