{"id":4505,"date":"2011-03-28T18:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2011-03-28T18:17:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T01:17:21","slug":"beckett-estate-is-not-amused-at-beckett-videogame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/28\/beckett-estate-is-not-amused-at-beckett-videogame\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckett estate is not amused at Beckett videogame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"4505\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beckett_videogame.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beckett_videogame.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Beckett_videogame\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beckett_videogame.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beckett_videogame-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My previous favorite &#8220;games are too art!&#8221; videogame was Waiting for Godot: the Video Game, based on the play by Samuel Beckett (pictured).  However, it turns out Beckett&#8217;s estate consists of humorless killjoys.  Mike Rosenthal, who made the videogame, reveals in an interview that he was legally bullied into changing the name:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To quote one of the several cease and desist letters I received from the French lawyers representing the Beckett estate, &#8220;Unfortunately we do not share your sense of humor.&#8221;  They asked me to change the name &#8220;Waiting for Godot,&#8221; because they held the rights to it.  Under American law, my game is considered parody and is protected under fair use, but I complied since I&#8217;m just a college kid who can&#8217;t really afford a lawyer.  So I changed the name to &#8220;Samuel Becketttt&#8217;s Lawyers Present: Waiting for Grodoudou.&#8221;  I even explicitly stated on my website that my game is now referring to the Australian Samuel Becketttt, not to be confused with the Irish Samuel Beckett.  They didn&#8217;t appreciate that.  So now it&#8217;s just called &#8220;Game.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, it&#8217;s worth reading the interview, which has a remarkable mystery and resolution in the first paragraph.  Go <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2011\/03\/the-rumpus-interview-with-mike-rosenthal\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;Game&#8221;, you can play it <a href=\"http:\/\/vectorbelly.com\/WaitingForGrodoudou.html\">here<\/a>, or watch the YouTube video of its original incarnation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5N1kqtum5rI\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Dingus and The Daily Dish!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beckett estate is not amused at Beckett videogame - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/28\/beckett-estate-is-not-amused-at-beckett-videogame\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beckett estate is not amused at Beckett videogame - 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