Hi guys!
Our script guru was busy fixing a few thousand examples (from the Trivia and YMMV pages) that ended up in the wrong sections of the pages. It was total chaos, but he managed to track his error and fix it.
Now to your questions...
They don't know who we are (not yet, at least), and we don't have much of money to take. But yeah, we'll be careful with this.
Discussed tropes? As in, our T with a speech bubble? It's an idea, but it doesn't really excite us... also, we already have a different idea. We bet you'll like it when you see it. Hopefully we can make it as good as we imagine.
So that's what they call "close enough" today? Lawyers, what are they good for?
1. We added some stub pages for works with ten wicks or more. Other examples we have to fix like this: We'll put them under the according medium instead. Tropers will have to fix them later.
2. At the moment, on the page you get to after you edit an example, the list will be sorted alphabetically. But we may change this.
3. Every example is stored as one entry in the database. So it's possible to edit one example individually, and you can also add and delete one individually. Adding a lot of examples at one time will be the next step.
BTL is dead anyway, domain's for sale, but we found the logo online and see what you mean. As said, we already have a good idea for a new logo that should pass in court and still... but we'll tell you as soon as we have a sketch.
OK, back to work now, in a few hours you'll get more screenshots!
Our script guru was busy fixing a few thousand examples (from the Trivia and YMMV pages) that ended up in the wrong sections of the pages. It was total chaos, but he managed to track his error and fix it.
Now to your questions...
robkelk Wrote:They can tie you up in court, for one thing. Even if you somehow win, you'll have spent a lot of time and money on the matter. Best not to "lampshade" the logo at all, IMHO.
(Hmmmmm... I wonder whether a "discussed tropes" logo would be possible?)
They don't know who we are (not yet, at least), and we don't have much of money to take. But yeah, we'll be careful with this.
Discussed tropes? As in, our T with a speech bubble? It's an idea, but it doesn't really excite us... also, we already have a different idea. We bet you'll like it when you see it. Hopefully we can make it as good as we imagine.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:You do need to be very careful about even looking similar. Twenty-some years ago Steve Jackson Games was able to get my GURPS adapation of Mage: The Ascension published despite White Wolf trying to sink the entire adaptation deal with them because White Wolf had a graphic element on every one of the pages in one of its other current books that had a triangle with a dot inside it. This was close enough to SJG's eye-in-the-pyramid trademark that Steve was able to hold a serious threat of a lawsuit over WW's head, and they chose to back down over MtA rather than risk the lawsuit.
So that's what they call "close enough" today? Lawyers, what are they good for?
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Now some questions for you guys: If you have a work that only is mentioned in trope examples, does your system automatically generate a stub work page for it? If you've sorted a trope or example list, if you go to edit it, is it presented to you in the same order? Or do you even edit lists like that in their entirety? I would imagine that it would make the behind-the-scenes housekeeping easier if you actually add or edit individual tropes or examples instead of editing them in bulk.
1. We added some stub pages for works with ten wicks or more. Other examples we have to fix like this: We'll put them under the according medium instead. Tropers will have to fix them later.
2. At the moment, on the page you get to after you edit an example, the list will be sorted alphabetically. But we may change this.
3. Every example is stored as one entry in the database. So it's possible to edit one example individually, and you can also add and delete one individually. Adding a lot of examples at one time will be the next step.
GethN7 Wrote:The guys at Beyond The Lampshade (I tried contacting them once in vain, doubt they really care about the troping community anymore) did have a good logo that still had a lampshade, just not remotely in the same style at the TV Tropes one, and the overall design was just different enough it would easily pass an IP test.
BTL is dead anyway, domain's for sale, but we found the logo online and see what you mean. As said, we already have a good idea for a new logo that should pass in court and still... but we'll tell you as soon as we have a sketch.
OK, back to work now, in a few hours you'll get more screenshots!