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Re: Harry Potter a ripoff from Spellcasting 101?

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From: richard e white
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 02:10
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John VanSickle wrote:

> zalzon wrote:
> >
> > In the early 90s, a company called Legend released a game called
> > Spellcasting 101.  It was an adventure game where you were a boy who
> > living with an abusive father.  You filled out an application for
> > Soucerer's University and escaped from your home.  Basically lots of
> > interesting stuff happens when you are at university as you mess around
> > with magic.  The game was written to be humourous as much as it was
> > adventurous.
> >
> > What I noticed is that the concept was ripped off by this Harry potter
> > stuff.
>
> This is the active ingredient in Dungbombs.
>
> The Legend people cannot claim that the concept of the wizard school was
> theirs because the story idea has been around since, oh, The Earthsea
> Trilogy, and wasn't a new idea then.
>
> #1 Rule of Copyright:  NOBODY OWNS IDEAS.
>
> Regards,
> John

I have read works that talk about wizard schools that where writen in the
1400 and they thought it was an old idea.



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