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Question about TPA licensing in public places
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<blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 236138" data-attributes="member: 1047"><p>That's still commercial utilization and is disallowed by the license, because the FarSight licenses themselves prohibit it. (FarSight licenses the pinball tables from the manufacturers who tell FarSight that commercial use is prohibited, so it's not just that FarSight wants to limit what you do, it's that their use of the tables is limited by their licensing agreements as well).</p><p></p><p>In fact, that's why the "cabinet mode" is actually under very restricted distribution - FarSight will allow it only for personal, non-commercial use and have you sign a legal agreement to that. </p><p></p><p>Having it on free-play standing in a commercial public venue is already a grey area even if patrons don't have to pay to play it (either by entrance fee or otherwise - anyone can come in off the street and play for hours for free) - it can be considered "commercial use" even if it makes no money as it was put there to encourage people to come in as a way to solicit business.</p><p></p><p>If you want to put up a virtual pinball machine in a business, there are commercially available options that have no such commercial use restrictions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worf, post: 236138, member: 1047"] That's still commercial utilization and is disallowed by the license, because the FarSight licenses themselves prohibit it. (FarSight licenses the pinball tables from the manufacturers who tell FarSight that commercial use is prohibited, so it's not just that FarSight wants to limit what you do, it's that their use of the tables is limited by their licensing agreements as well). In fact, that's why the "cabinet mode" is actually under very restricted distribution - FarSight will allow it only for personal, non-commercial use and have you sign a legal agreement to that. Having it on free-play standing in a commercial public venue is already a grey area even if patrons don't have to pay to play it (either by entrance fee or otherwise - anyone can come in off the street and play for hours for free) - it can be considered "commercial use" even if it makes no money as it was put there to encourage people to come in as a way to solicit business. If you want to put up a virtual pinball machine in a business, there are commercially available options that have no such commercial use restrictions. [/QUOTE]
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