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An Apology to Left Behind Games
We recently received a "legal notice" from Troy Lyndon, the president of Left Behind Games. This is the company that is releasing the video game Left Behind: Eternal Forces this week. He threatened legal action unless Talk to Action remove the screenshots that writers here have used to illustrate their posts about the game, and apologize for violating their copyright We agreed to do so, even though we feel that the uses of the screenshots are well within the legal doctrine of " fair use," and note that they are also being used to illustrate many other stories and reviews of the game.
Lyndon was also upset that red coloring was added to some of the shots to indicate blood in the battle scenes depicted in the game. Lyndon correctly points out that the game itself studiously avoids blood and guts.
I am a believer in copyright, even in an age of far greater flexibility with regard to copyright, especially since the advent of the blogosphere. My own belief is that bloggers are sometimes insufficiently respectful of the copyrights of others. But they are not the only ones.
I believe that even when the law is generous, that the principle of copyright is important, and that if an author, a copyright holder objects to a use, that holds great weight with me, and it is in that spirit that I am honored to apologize on behalf of Talk to Action, and to welcome Left Behind Games, a relatively new company, to the ranks of those with a keen sense of intellectual property in an age when corporations and others are quick to appropriate the work of others for uses of their own. |
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