36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist

Zerocool3001 writes "The recently featured 36-hour port of the original Palm version of Lemmings to the iPhone and Palm Pre has received a cease and desist letter from Sony. Only one day after submitting the app for approval on the two app stores, the developer has put up a post stating that he 'did this as a tribute to the game — we can only hope that Sony actually does a conversion for platforms like iPhone and Palm Pre in the near future.' The text of the cease and desist letter is available from the developer's website."

Comments

only infringing if...

[MoFoQ]

I thought it was only infringing if they used (copied) art/words/code/etc. but not game play.

if they didn't use the original artwork and it was fresh code....they could use "Lemmini" as the name (or perhaps "Tribe Lemmini"...a play on the scientific name)

Same reason why you can have so many different jewel puzzle games.

Sony also make phones

[Colin Smith]

Which compete with palm and apple.

So. no real surprise.
 

Re:Sony, Sony, Sony.

[longhairedgnome]

The christian Mods don't appreciate vonnegut ;_;