09-08-2017, 09:46 PM | #1 |
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Is there a Specific rule?
I'm just wondering if there is a specific rule about posting about movies and using those movies as inspiration for GURPS setting? I'm asking because on the Palladium Forums they dont allow you to talk about specific movies as inspiration for games or movie characters as characters.. Like for example I have the game Dead Reign and I wanted to use Resident Evil as my inspiration for a setting.. I was threatened to have my post deleted because of it. Is it like that here?
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09-08-2017, 09:49 PM | #2 |
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Re: Is there a Specific rule?
You can definitely talk about adapting media for GURPS, in fact there's a book about it: GURPS Adaptations.
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09-09-2017, 04:01 PM | #3 | |
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In fact, by my reading of the rules, there's a rule against threatening to have a post deleted - we aren't supposed to pretend to be forum moderators. (A mod will simply delete the post, not threaten to do so.)
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09-10-2017, 12:01 AM | #4 |
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Re: Is there a Specific rule?
There is sort of an unwritten rule against posting GURPS adaptations of Palladium materials, because Palladium is famously paranoid about combinations of their material with that of any other company's.
There are also rules against posting or linking to material that violates trademark or copyright. There's a "GURPS Ghostbusters" book that gets mentioned here from time to time that is a perfect example of how to violate both.
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09-10-2017, 11:23 PM | #5 | |||
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The trouble with "GURPS Ghostbusters" is that nearly the entire book was cut-and-pasted directly from existing RPG books! Whole sections of GURPS Horror, GURPS All-Star Jam, and other GURPS books were lifted -- but that was secondary to the fact that virtually all of WEG's original Ghostbusters RPG text was copy-pasted into the book. And on top of that, the author broke our "please don't copy our trade dress or otherwise mislead people into thinking your book is an official SJ Games product" rule -- which had led to people blaming us for the blatant copyright infringement. Basically, we just ask that you don't post big chunks of copyrighted text here, or incorporate copyrighted text into your own fan works. There's a bit more to the online policy, but that's the only rule which makes us mad if broken; anything else is more of a "lets give 'em a heads up here" situation.
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09-11-2017, 12:06 AM | #6 | |
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09-19-2017, 04:57 AM | #7 |
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Re: Is there a Specific rule?
I believe they put the name of an established writer on the cover, as if that would fool anyone.
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09-19-2017, 10:11 PM | #8 |
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Re: Is there a Specific rule?
Actually, IIRC they put the names of most or all of the writers they stole from on the cover. As if crediting the people they stole from would make up for stealing.
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09-20-2017, 05:43 PM | #9 |
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Re: Is there a Specific rule?
I seem to recall they also put a "we don't own any of this, no copyright infringement intended" on the credits page. PROTIP: That cuts no mustard.
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09-21-2017, 12:49 PM | #10 |
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Re: Is there a Specific rule?
Since we've drifted pretty far from the OP, I'm going to go ahead and close this. Feel free to ask in a new thread if you have any more questions, though!
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