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Jesus, you are right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hqq3VjrcFc

I guess this means, everybody can build games like this and the NYT would not be able to say they infringed on a game concept they own?

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Game concepts generally can't be copyrighted, in the US at least. From Wikipedia [1]: > gameplay elements of a video game are generally ineligible for copyright

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...

Lingo isn't wholly original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto

Nothing is original. One who is tasked to create a pie from scratch will have to invent firstly the whole universe

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