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On 2021/08/24 9:15 a.m., planetarypinball wrote:
On Monday, August 9, 2021 at 8:15:24 AM UTC-7, steve...@gmail.com wrote:
Looking for plastics for the Williams Magic City. This game is one of my favorites and the main reason is that they backglass artwork is just great. Yes it's in great shape, but, the artist really did a great job.
I need everything on the top end of the playfield. It looks as if this game was in restoration with someone, they stripped the playfield down, then for some reason gave up and the thing sold at auction. A friend of mine bought it and I then picked it up.
If I have too, which I really hate doing....is part it out, but it takes a miracle of god before I do things like that. I have always tried with no matter what in I had, to bring them back then to tear it apart and then just leave the spoils...
LIke I said...Magic City plastics and other play pieces, or Magic Town...same game just a Add a Ball, same plastics and top end pieces will work...and also if someone just has part of the pieces i need..I would entertain picking those up and then to keep looking..
thanks
Steve
we have these reproduced under wms license.
http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PPS-30C-329-COMP
You do realize that Magic City's artwork is Public Domain? It was never copyrighted when it was published in 1967, so entered Public Domain automatically as soon as the first machine was sold.
https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain
I find it amusing that the licence holders for William and Bally
(Scientific Games if I am not mistaken) keep pretending that they own
the copyright and folks are thus obligated to pay them for artwork that
is clearly Public Domain.
Show me the copyright notice on Magic City and I will apologize.
Note that Williams did start copyrighting their work in the early 70s
and that work is protected and licence fees (if the copyright holder so desires) MUST be paid for the right to reproduce. However you can't take something out of public domain - once it has entered it is free forever afterwards.
The law is the law!
John :-#)#
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