![]() ZACCARIA PINBALL VALUES LICENSEFarSight lost the Williams license to Zen and can no longer sell them. Physical machine on the left, Digital version on the rightĪll this is sorta moot, as you can’t buy any of these titles within Pinball Arcade anymore. Never mind why not (it’s complicated), but by altering the art slightly in key ways, they were able to get around this. When FarSight added The Addams Family to Pinball Arcade, they had to alter the image of Fester because they didn’t pay for Christopher Lloyd’s rights. In the case of AC/DC music rights have to be worked out, and music licensing is notoriously expensive.īut wait, there’s more. In the case of TAF, actors need to be compensated for use of their likeness, as well as use of their voice work done for the table. Permission and a fee needs to be paid to the holder of that license. The most obvious is when the table is themed off an existing license, like The Addams Family (TAF) or AC/DC. There are a few different types of licensing to consider. Perhaps the biggest thing to address is the licenses that exist on pinball tables and why not all of those things make it into the digital translation. Whether it be licensing, censorship, how tables are packaged together and more, I thought maybe I could clear up a few things. It’s come to my attention that a great deal of you are very curious about digital pinball in general, but might not understand why certain things are the way they are. Understanding Digital Pinball Choices: Licensing and Censorship ![]()
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