Chinese Justice

[Jarulf]

Your intellectual property arguments are really inaccurate (at least for US law) but here I agree with the essence of the argument.

I have not even spoken about "intellectual property". What do yo umean by that? I have mentioned copyright. That is hardly the same thing. For the record, I was also not talking specifically for US, but more in general. I still think it holds up in most cases though.

What part of it is different for USA? Are you saying one can get copyright on a sword with damag 12-15 in US? Can you get copyright for a diadem with ABS 14??? Can you get copyright on plain data in USA? If that is true, I am sure we are either soon out on having ANY sword in games, since there must by now (or pretty soon) be swords with data telling about any sort of damage you can make up.

If it is the other part, that copyright violation does not need to mean that you infringe on one of the (almost) exclusive rights a copyright holder has, I am a bit confused. Those rights are in USA as far as I have read, about the same as in most other countries, with some differences of course, but still, I don't see ANY act in the process of "selling" items or gold. You transfer an item inside the game, something that is OK, you give someone money, which is OK. What is the problem?

So perhpas you could tell what part I missed about US copyright law. And also explain to me, if copyright law DO make it illegal, why would they ever have to write special section for it in any contract they attempt to make with you????