Aircraft names and images

I just come to remember something.

I read an official american document in pdf that explain that games are not completely protected by the copyright laws. The only elements protected by copyright laws are text in rule books or cards and artistic work like images and music ( if there is any).

Any game concept or rules is not covered by the copyright law. If you want to protect it you must make some kind of special demand to the library of the congress and send a copy of the game with a document specifying what you want actually to protect. Of course, this is for the united states, I don't know about other country procedure.

Which mean that if you don't borrow artwork and text but only make a new game that has the same logic of game play, I think it will work unless there is a pattent on an aspect of a game.

The names and numbers of combat weapons systems are not copyrighted. Since these gain their final designations by governments after approval for use, their official desigantions will never overlap those of other existing systems. No government in its right mind would say to itself "Hey, these new fighters are really neat! Let's call them F-16 Falcons! That name rocks!" The US government wouldn't send a "Cease and Desist" order to this other government when it heard they were making their own F-16's. It'd send an ambassador and a weapon inspection team.

So the worst you'd have to worry about when using official desigantions in your game would be to have a weapons inspection team knock on your door one night. Better hope you don't have any oil in your house, though, or you'll face a full-scale invasion!

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