Conquer Club

Strategygamenetwork.com is a similar risk site to cc ( although they suck major donkey balls and charge 62 a year for premium)

they have a classic map with basically the same territory names and shapes as our old classic, and the actual risk gameboard

here is a pic of it:


as a question, does adding a few territs to a copyrighted layout take it out of danger for a lawsuit? I assume not, because we wouldve just added Antarctica to our old classic and be done with it...

Just wanted to know before I started something in the foundry


EDIT:

here is the second one;

Well, we have World 2.1, don't we?

Actually, their most played map has the exact same layout as classic, and uses a world map, but just uses different names ( ie, middle east is now just Iraq) correct me if I'm wrong...

they also connected so.am to australia, as well as changing the color scheme

is it just me or have they jacked and made shittier versions of alot of conquerclub maps?

oh, i see, they allow any idiot to upload maps, and a map editor to make their own....

last time i was on a site like that cheater maps we're prevalent, it was shitty.

Hasbro should sue them all the way to hell though.

Sixty bucks a year, wow...

lol second map...since when are those countries that big? nazi empire? germany owns half of europe

sinctheassasin wrote:Strategygamenetwork.com is a similar risk site to cc ( although they suck major donkey balls and charge 62 a year for premium)

they have a classic map with basically the same territory names and shapes as our old classic, and the actual risk gameboard

here is a pic of it:


as a question, does adding a few territs to a copyrighted layout take it out of danger for a lawsuit? I assume not, because we wouldve just added Antarctica to our old classic and be done with it...

Just wanted to know before I started something in the foundry


EDIT:

here is the second one;

Game play is different though. The extra connections will ruin the ability to shield someone in ausi and other places and make the map more offensive. (Or ausi will be harder to hold in dubs [or standard 6 players games if your a noob]).

sinctheassasin wrote:Hasbro should sue them all the way to hell though.

Sixty bucks a year, wow...

yeah, they probably havent got big enough to get the ire of hasbro, they are still pretty new it looks like. looks like a shitty cc rip-off made by a 13 year old with paint.

Georgerx7di wrote:

sinctheassasin wrote:Strategygamenetwork.com is a similar risk site to cc ( although they suck major donkey balls and charge 62 a year for premium)

they have a classic map with basically the same territory names and shapes as our old classic, and the actual risk gameboard

here is a pic of it:


as a question, does adding a few territs to a copyrighted layout take it out of danger for a lawsuit? I assume not, because we wouldve just added Antarctica to our old classic and be done with it...

Just wanted to know before I started something in the foundry


EDIT:

here is the second one;

Game play is different though. The extra connections will ruin the ability to shield someone in ausi and other places and make the map more offensive. (Or ausi will be harder to hold in dubs [or standard 6 players games if your a noob]).

were you talking about the second one too? I'm sure if we could connect sa to aust. Without getting sued we'd do it..

Hmm, if anybody wants to scout their site for more copyrighted stuff, that would be great.

The gameplay changes are actually directly ripped from Risk 2 (Hasbro).

Here are some more copyrighted stuff;

snakes and ladders is also owned by hasbro:



as well as stargate, Which is a movie as well as I think a television show:

Are old TV shows still protected by copyright?

soundman wrote:Are old TV shows still protected by copyright?

yes, but stargate isnt that old.. but here is what i found about copyrights:

US Copyrights wrote:As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years

so yeah, copyrights last a long time..

but im sure in time, they will grow the ire of hasbro, however i have a hard time thinking that they would view them as much of a threat...

Maybe if we told them they're appreciate it though

Also along with the joy of eliminating a competing *cough* site

Looks lik cc's badass has done it again

those were some butt ugly maps...



makes me really appreciate our foundry guys...

a little factoid for you, ConquerClub is the only Risk clone site out there without a Classic map.

But Hasbro really has better things to do then to actively protect their IP from small time, craptastic, sites. I have even seen Risk clonse sites that have the actual Risk map, that says RISK on it. Crazy.

mibi wrote:a little factoid for you, ConquerClub is the only Risk clone site out there without a Classic map.

But Hasbro really has better things to do then to actively protect their IP from small time, craptastic, sites. I have even seen Risk clonse sites that have the actual Risk map, that says RISK on it. Crazy.

1. CC doesn't have the classic map cause Hasbro would sue us.
2. Hasbro doesn't bother with "small time, craptastic, sites."

Since they view us as enough of a threat to actually sue us if we have classic, we must be doing pretty well!

sinctheassasin wrote:as a question, does adding a few territs to a copyrighted layout take it out of danger for a lawsuit? I assume not, because we wouldve just added Antarctica to our old classic and be done with it...

Just wanted to know before I started something in the foundry

Depends on the wording of the copyright. Copyright protects the idea. In some cases, copyright suits have been won for use of three notes from a copyrighted song, because the notes were distinctive enough to be considered the intellectual property of the original writer.

Use of the attack pattern, for example, could probably be considered a copyright infringement, if Hasbro lawyers wanted to look at Art and Shapes for the pattern.
If they do not want to look that aggressively, then changing just one feature significantly enough could protect the maker from copyright suits.

Many books are copyrighted to the point that copying more than a page could be considered a violation. Some have exceptions in that, if the material is being used for classroom purposes, copying an entire section, such as a chapter, for a handout, is allowable. In some cases, copying a chapter is technically illegal but people do it anyway, because, "who wants to sue a teacher for introducing a portion of material to a class?"

Bottom line: if you REALLY want to know the answer, contact Hasbro and ask what is and isn't permissible for use from their Risk game; i.e. ask for the specific copyright wording and have a lawyer interpret it for you.

SGN is where I played before I came here. Compared to the $25, way better maps, and better games (they only have Real Time (equivalent to Speed games) and 2-6 man standard), the site is now laughable. The incident that pushed me over the edge, though, occurred when I tried to submit a map. Their rule is that once a map has the kinks worked out and it has been played 30 times, it goes from Provisional (equivalent to Beta) to official. After 4 months of waiting, it was denied because it hadn't met the 30 game requirement even the the Times Played counter showed 90.

Also, going back, some of their maps look a little familiar...

Master Fenrir wrote:SGN is where I played before I came here. Compared to the $25, way better maps, and better games (they only have Real Time (equivalent to Speed games) and 2-6 man standard), the site is now laughable. The incident that pushed me over the edge, though, occurred when I tried to submit a map. Their rule is that once a map has the kinks worked out and it has been played 30 times, it goes from Provisional (equivalent to Beta) to official. After 4 months of waiting, it was denied because it hadn't met the 30 game requirement even the the Times Played counter showed 90.

Also, going back, some of their maps look a little familiar...

lol, at least landgrab.net had playable rags XD

cc is definatly the most badassiest of them all though

Anyone ever play on Grand Strategy?? They always have and still have the Classic Map.

Maybe we should make a list if all of them... And send them to hasbro

Knowing how lobbyists are in America, they will probably sue the f*ck outta those poor bastards if they don't take their classics down