>Thank you Andrew and Wo from Womo-team for replying to me. > >(1) To Andrew. I guessed the situation regarding MasterDOS etc, but surely > Dr Andy Wright could clarify that situation.
He probably could, but I don't have a current address to contact him. > Also why does no one quite Know if copyright belongs to them or not. Because a lot of the contracts were made with SamCo, which went into liquidation. IANAL, but as far as I'm aware the liquidator holds the copyrights on the software unless it was bought by another company. The rights are unlikely to have reverted to the authors. So who bought the rights? Bob says he owns all the Revelation titles but I am informed that this is not the true. In short, I don't know - but because I'm not directly involved, I don't exactly have a case for finding out. Just as complicated is the case of Persona. No-one seems to know what's been going on with any of their software since the tragic death of Malcolm MacKenzie, and that's over a year ago. I don't know anyone who's managed to get a reply out of the family at all. In this case, I do have a direct link though - Syncytium. My initial (verbal) contract was with David Ledbury for Phoenix, but when Persona started distributing Persona's software I was happy to go along with it. So who has the right to distribute that software now? Probably not me, but on the other hand it would be immensely hard to prove anything either way. The reason I haven't put Syncytium on-line so far is out of politeness. Just on the off-chance that Persona do start trading again, I wouldn't like to be accused of breaking my agreement. But I have to admit, that really is looking increasingly unlikely. Maybe I can take the protection out and upload a copy, if I have time. I would *love* to see a WOS-like site devoted to Sam software, but without someone who know more about who owns what, I don't think we'll ever see it legally. Having said that, I'd be very willing to help with HTML, and design, and such-and-such if people thought this project was feasible. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Life is -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- somewhat dissimilar -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- to a bad analogy --
