Talk:Poly-Play

message: I presume the article was ported from the German wikipedia using some kind of automated translation. I have gone through it and I think I'v figured what most means, but am still puzzled by:
*"Whereby one generally assumed that, which is to a very large extent tolerated this."
*"the crush was then very high"
any ideas?
Boffy b 23:29, 2004 Aug 14 (UTC)
i mean:
*"everyone tolerated those 1Pfennig-Cheaters, because the machine was not commerce"
*"only if too many played at the automat (10Player and more) the InsertCoin re-activated"
sorry my english is not best.
can you my Picture here upload? i have here not account.
thx -Ash-
:Thank you, it makes sense now. I got most of it first time round, and anyway, your English is a lot better then my German! And a picture is always welcome, where is it from? What is the copyright status of it? I see it is from MAME, did you take it yourself?
::yes a I liked more Popeye, Mr. Do und Pacman, Centipede and Gigas ;] The copyright status ist 100% free, because the country is away and the enterprise also. Many say the Wolf ate it. -Ash-
:::I am not sure about it. I researched a little bit for my VEB Polytechnik article, and it seems like the legal successor of the company is the Polytechnik Frankenheim GmbH. Or at least they got the overhead projector business.. I don't know what happened to intellectual property rights of the GDR companies after the german unifcation. --Tjansen 13:02, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Babelfish?

message: I just changed some Information on the page regarding existing machines. We have two working machines in my club RetroGames e.V in South-Germany. I will try to make some Photos of the machines. --Lenno 08:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More Poly Play exists

message: The claim that Poly Play is in the public domain is false. According to German copyright law, copyright can't get lost, since it's tied unchangeably to the author. So if some legal successor should be missing (which I doubt), copyright has fallen back to the authors themselves. That at the time and place of authorship there was a different jurisdiction does not change anything about that. Copyright has not been lost. Please don't spread the false rumor. --Rtc 20:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Who's the author? --Golbez 20:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't say, but it's irrelevant. Obviously it has been created by a human or several humans, and copyright will last until 70 pma of the last surviving one. "who would sue?" is a good question, but that the rights holder might be unclear is not really important. It's a matter of fact that some rights holder exist, be it the authors, be it a legal successor of the company, and thus it cannot be in the public domain. --Rtc 20:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't call things "harmful". Harmful to who? The anonymous East German who has never seen a cent for his work? --Golbez 20:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The same article says "The new company was also closed in 2006." Now who owns this? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 00:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If the rights were not transferred to someone else (given that Polytechnik owned the rights at all), the rights are owned by the people who created the games, whoever they are. --Grandy02 (talk) 12:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Public Domain 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Polyplay5.png

message: Wouldn't the photo of the arcade machine be more meaningful as the expressionless game select screen in the infobox? Plus, there are currently nine fair-use images in this article, I don't think that many are allowed. --Grandy02 (talk) 12:52, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main image