July, 1999Archive for

The Tetris Company – Copyright

What's all this? This page describes how The Tetris Company is trying to remove all freeware & shareware tetris-style games from distribution. They are claiming that they have copyright on "the look and feel" and "trade dress" of Tetris. This is not legal and is an invalid claim. The story. Many freeware and shareware tetris game developers and distributors have received threatening e-mails from "The Tetris Company" about their game being a copyright infringement.. I received one such e-m...

Bedter

Bedter Version 2.52 Bedter was renamed from Bedtris after legal threats from The Tetris Company! The ultimate in tetris style games. With all the features that I wanted in a tetris game because I couldn't find one I liked, so I wrote my own. Now at version 2.52. Bedter is freeware so download and distribute to all of your friends. Features include: Customisable Gameplay Customisable Scoring One or two players Agressive or Points mode Multiple Difficulties ...