{"author_name":"Mikhail Rudoy","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"snowyowl","time":"April 30, 2011 11:07 am","epoch":1304179620,"text":"Yes. Yes it would.
\n But I don’t think you’d get banned from the competition, and you certainly won’t get sued because Nintendo have better things to do.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"toxicfork","time":"April 30, 2011 11:09 am","epoch":1304179740,"text":"IMO, yes, it would be. Maybe it won’t be infringement if you use your own assets and story and don’t copy all of the gameplay.
\n But I’m no lawyer so I might be wrong!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 30, 2011 11:10 am","epoch":1304179800,"text":"I am not a lawyer, but I’m quite sure that you can’t use any of the graphics or music from Zelda because of both copyright law and the rules of this contest.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"TellusE","time":"April 30, 2011 11:13 am","epoch":1304179980,"text":"I hardly think anyone has a copyright on a 2d tilebased “slash-puzzler”, but using art assets not made by yourself during the 48 hours are clearly against the rules, though.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1304179320,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"66460","p_author":"Mikhail Rudoy","p_authorkey":"3743","p_urlkey":"102256","p_title":"Someone please help","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304179320","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3743","us_name":"Mikhail Rudoy","us_username":"mrudoy","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

Does anyone know whether making a(n almost exact) Zelda clone would be a copyright infringement? Also how about the rules of LD and using the same graphics as Zelda?<\/p>\n

PS despite the fact that I am planning an almost exact copy, the difference should be worth it, so yes, I know that just copying Zelda defeats the purpose, but I do have a reason for wanting to make it as reminiscent of Zelda as possible.<\/p>\n

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\n Mikhail Rudoy<\/p>\n \n

Tags: LD20<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 30th, 2011 11:02 am","title":"Someone please help"}