2011-04-25, 11:03 AM
Sounds like a pretty standard copyright issue to me.
Yes you're right that if you are not making a profit off the thing then it becomes not only uneconomical, but almost unfeasible to be able to sue you over using their stuff.
I would say you should just manually go in and change a few pixels around on all the images, and then they will be almost S.O.L.
But lawyers can be very tricky.
If you really wanna be bulletproof you would have to prove that yer game is somehow parodying Maple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues
You got many ways to do whatever ya want, with the main point being that yer not making a profit off this thing, so yer not really an important target like yer people over on BannedStory are to Nexon.
Yes you're right that if you are not making a profit off the thing then it becomes not only uneconomical, but almost unfeasible to be able to sue you over using their stuff.
I would say you should just manually go in and change a few pixels around on all the images, and then they will be almost S.O.L.
But lawyers can be very tricky.
If you really wanna be bulletproof you would have to prove that yer game is somehow parodying Maple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues
You got many ways to do whatever ya want, with the main point being that yer not making a profit off this thing, so yer not really an important target like yer people over on BannedStory are to Nexon.