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Farling
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Old July 18th, 2018, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Acenoid View Post
Really ridiculous that rules cannot be protected. At least for some time they should have an exclusive like in pharma industry and other process where the first inventor invested much more time / money to develop the idea, than the copycats.
I think the general issue with game rules is that most games are a mix of little bits from lots of other games. Pretty much nothing is truly original. Probably the only copyright/trademark/patent could relate to a particular combination of lots of little bits.

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