[dieKatze88]

Actually, copyright law (at least in the United States, this may not apply to you Takuya) states that recreations are copyrighted, but only the code.

Ironically enough, this was proved by Konami vs Stern on the subject of Scramble. Stern took out copyrights on the graphics and sounds that Konami's code produced because Stern was producing the arcade machines (similar setup to today's Konami/Betson approach, except it doesn't suck anymore).

Basically, the ruling stated that one company can own the Graphics and Sounds that are created by the code, and not the code its self. This created a sticky situation for Konami for the past 20 years, as they wanted to include Scramble on their arcade recreation packs, but couldn't because they didn't own the graphics or the sounds that the game produced. The copyright was let go by Stern sometime recently and the game has since been reproduced.

So yes, Takuya, you do own partial Copyright on your recreations (according to the laws of a country you don't live in) however, because you don't *TECHNICALLY* own all the Intellectual property, it would be incredibly difficult to enforce your copyright.

Edit: I have had my work stolen on several occasions. It's not fun. Especially when people who don't speak English do it, and do it very very poorly. If you're going to steal my code at least fucking try and make an effort to hide it, but the code from New Novae was stolen directly from KatzeExtreme and edited very very slightly. There was a DDR Extreme theme from Japan that was a direct rip of my code. Several people have ripped my Ultramix code. Its not fun and its not cute. If anyone ever thinks about stealing code, just ask, most people are glad to give permission for it.