<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Liberation Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Please leave the icons to me.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Monday 05 of January 2009 09:16:11 Parker Coates wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 20:32, Mauricio Piacentini wrote:<br>
> > With the artwork freeze dangerous close, do you guys think we should do<br>
> > a groups effort and change the default Kapman theme, as discussed a<br>
> > while ago in one of the meetings? There is a potential issue with the<br>
> > characters being too similar to copyrighted ones (depending on where you<br>
> > live, of course.) We could still provide the existing theme as a second<br>
> > option.<br>
> > At the same time, no one has reported this as an issue yet. Any opinions?<br>
><br>
> There are still some major trademark issues even with the theme<br>
> change. The application icon is still the original Pac-Man graphic and<br>
> the sound made when the hero dies is very similar to the original (if<br>
> memory serves me correctly).<br>
><br>
> Namco Bandai has a history of suing for infringements of their Pac-Man<br>
> copyright and trademarks [1] [2], so I think it makes sense to be very<br>
> cautious with this.<br>
><br>
> Parker<br>
><br>
> [1]<br>
> http://www.arcade-renaissance.com/2007/11/namco-bandai-announces-lawsuit-ag<br>
>ainst.html [2] http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/29/news_6132198.html<br>
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