Digital Property Law [was RE: [MUD-Dev] Selling training]

[Koster]

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> Subject: RE: Digital Property Law [was RE: [MUD-Dev] Selling training]
 
> Further, regardless of how we look at things, we're just game
> designers. Game designers seem pretty darn unlikely to have any
> serious influence on politics anytime soon. We're a small industry
> that isn't taken seriously as an economic or political force (no one
> gives a damn if the computer games lobby (if there even is one)
> objects to a proposed bill) and thus we're sort of at the mercy of
> judges and juries who most likely are not interested in
> understanding what we do well enough to see clearly.

The IDSA is the gaming industry's lobby, and it's been fairly
successful at fending off the various attempts at legislation by a
clueless Congress, thus far. I wouldn't say it's the most powerful
lobby on the planet, but it's definitely taken seriously.

-Raph
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