The copyright row that poleaxed the Elite Dangerous pen-and-paper RPG

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The Kickstarter for the Elite Dangerous pen-and-paper RPG was put on hold after a copyright claim sent just five days before the crowdfunding effort was due to end.
Elite: Dangerous RPG, from UK company Spidermind Games, was sitting pretty on £65,000 raised - £20,000 over its target - when the Kickstarter was put in limbo and its creators were left worrying for its future.
In an email from Kickstarter sent last Friday, Spidermind was told the project had been removed from public view because it had received a notice of copyright infringement that referenced the original Elite, created by David Braben and Ian Bell and released in 1984, as well as Elite Dangerous, the space game Frontier initially released in December 2014.
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