There are a lot of considerations, yeah, thank you for your advice. Regarding the copyright issues, as I mentioned I doubt there will be a problem but would comply if there was. There is a lot of copyright- infringing apps out there, but in most cases freeware apps are not pursued by franchise owners unless they infringe on sales of a licensed product. It functions for the franchise owner as free advertising. Tricorder for example, is one of the top downloaded apps on the Android Market, Andbot.com lists it as one of only 529 apps with over 250,000 downloads. It is not a licensed product by Paramount, but as far as I know, has incurred no issues. And directly pertaining to the Stargate franchise itself, there are like fifty to a hundred programs for the PC that are similar to my proposed phone app, that have also never received DMCA-related issues.
On Jul 6, 10:21 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:30 AM, ocdtrekkie <[email protected]> wrote: > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > Beyond Sephy's point of likely getting the Stargate folk rather > irritated with you, what you are trying to do sure does not seem to be > to be "a fairly simple idea". > > I'm pretty good with this Android stuff, and I would expect it would > take me 20+ hours to figure out how to pull that off properly, such > that it will work on a wide range of Android devices (from QVGA to > 1080p, resistive and capacitive). Even if I knew all of the steps -- > which I don't -- that would be a wee bit more than can reasonably be > expected to be put in an email. > > I'd aim for a simpler UI, and one that is less likely to get yanked > off of the market due to a DCMA takedown. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
