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No, it's more than Zenimax owns not only the code Carmack wrote while he was there, but also the design on which that code was based. If there were literal desi
by 794CD01 10y ago
No, it's more than Zenimax owns not only the code Carmack wrote while he was there, but also the design on which that code was based. If there were literal design documents written up, I think we would all agree that is clearly true. When the designs are all in one person's head, it becomes gray enough to take to court.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoOnly the verbatim design documents are copyrighted. The ideas in them are protected as free speech.
- njharman 10y agoThings don't need to be "protected" to be free. Free is the natural legal state. There has to be laws passed to grant monopolies. Hence why copyright, patent, etc are laws. And "ideas" aren't a protected form of free speech.