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by **IditarodGuy** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:22 am

Has anybody thought of making a Hunger Games Map based on the book and now the movie? I think it is a great idea, please let me know what you think.
IditarodGuy

by **DiM** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:23 am

by **IditarodGuy** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:38 am

The map maker would need to do something about that, like change the name a tiny bit, or get permission to use it.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:53 am

Getting permission would never happen. It is to big a property now. If you changed it enough to be made without the copyright issue, would anyone really see it for what it is?

by **IditarodGuy** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:14 am

No one even wants to try? I think they would want more publicity to make more people watch it/read it, and a map would be great. "if CC even has a map for it may actually be worth watch and reading" I just want someone to TRY.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:29 am

Never read the books or seen the film, so what is so great about it that you feel would make it a great map?

What features could be incorporated into a map?

by **AndyDufresne** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:30 am

Unfortunately iditarod guy, I doubt the marketing or publicity they'd get from a map on CC is it worth it to them, considering they've had #1 / #2 at the box office for quite a weeks!

Overall, working with copyrighted material can be very difficult, and even more so when something is new / hot and profitable.

Someone could create a map based on a similar theme with careful allusions to it, however.

--Andy

by **IditarodGuy** on Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:05 am

No, everybody would know what it was based on and criticize that we did not make it for the Hunger Games, but tried to alter the story so we could make a map.

by **thenobodies80** on Wed May 02, 2012 2:48 am

The biggest problem with copyrighted material is that you need to change it . Every attempt to create a map from copyrighted material is mostly wasted time, very hard to do (specially if you go with your first map) and it ends up with something that is not a map you wanted at the beginning.

But to give an advice, a map based about the topic/general idea that was the inspiration to create the hunger games story could be used easily "The Greek myth of Theseus served as the basis for the story.....etc etc" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games#Inspiration_and_origins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus#Theseus_and_the_Minotaur

Labyrinth, young guys, fight for life, minotarus.....all good elements for a map with a theme that is similar but zero copyrights