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Rockbox's jewelsRockbox's jewelsPosted Apr 23, 2006 20:00 UTC (Sun) by pm101 (guest, #3011)Parent article: Rockbox's jewels
It does feel like it might be plagarism to me. The graphics were
(a) shouldn't prevent this from being a copyright violation, at least in some jurisdictions. If you take a book, rewrite each sentence (say, switching passive and active town), change character names, etc., it remains a copyright violation.
What's interesting about (b) is that, as some people have pointed out, xjewel used mostly (but not entirely) the same shape-color mappings as bejeweled. While not a direct copy, the Bejeweled images are based on xjewel (or some intermediary) images, to a similar (slightly lesser -- a couple of the gems were redrawn) extent as Roxbox are based on Bejeweled. If Roxbox is a copyright infringement of Bejeweled, then Bejeweled (barring any licensing we do not know about) is mostly likely a copyright infringement of xjewel. By winning a lawsuit against Roxbox, Popcap would be setting up precedent for a lawsuit against itself by the authors of xjewel (or whoever originally created the graphics).
Popcap was founded in 2000. xjewel is from 1990/1992.
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