I would be very, very surprised if anyone at all had a defensible IP claim to the game Hackenbush, or to the association between the name and the game, and even more surprised if anyone attempted to make such a case. The website name is at most a trademark, and probably not even that. I am not a lawyer, however. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I had been wondering if the copyright was held by the movie studio that produced the Marx Brothers movie "A Day at the Races", in which Groucho plays Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a horse doctor who becomes chief of the medical staff at a financially troubled resort.
-- Gene
From: Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> To: Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com>; math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Hackenbush applet?
I don't know. It was someone who claimed to have a copyright on Hackenbush and was parking on the domain name hackenbush.com. Rather than deal with whomever it was, we just dropped the 'c' in the name. It looks like hackenbush.com still for sale, but the landing page is different.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Out of curiosity, who owns the copyright on "Hackenbush" ?
-- Gene
From: Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Hackenbush applet?
yes, we (ie greg whitehead and i, acting as counterwavegames.com) made one.
it runs only on ipad
we dropped the 'c' from the name for copyright reasons, but here you go
thane
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:48 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know of a browser applet or smartphone app that lets a human play Red-Blue Hackenbush against a computer?
One nice way to convince people that a certain Hackenbush position H has value 1/2 would to give them a chance to play the game consisting of m copies of H plus n copies of a game with value -1, for various values of m and n, sometimes playing Red and sometimes playing Blue.
Jim Propp
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