----- Original Message ----- From: D.A. Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Publish and be damned!
> > for years without anybody picking him > > up no teh fact that he didn't actually > > have publishing rights for them. > > This is a fair point. I have no idea whether Bob did have the rights to > half the stuff or not, but regardless of public opinion, nobody attempted > to stop him to my knowledge. brenchley bought the rights to nothing from stones jones... all old revelation titles - where possible - got taken over by me by simply contacting the authors when the contract went out of date. hence i owned manic miner, sound machine, and a number of original titles most of these got taken over by Malcolm - although no formal contract exists to my knowlege stating this.... as i'm the other partner in persona - I'm more than willing to allow Gavin to resell selected titles, however, it must be confirmed properly with Dawn Mackenzie first .... > > marketing SAM software. If I wanted to > > buy a game tomorrow I would not be able > > to. > > Again, this is very true - whose selling rights are we protecting? It's > not as if someone is going to lose sales by this, no-one knows where to > get the stuff. See above > > page, accessed only by password, and > > with the passwor dbeing given out after > > people have regiesterd. That way, if > > This strikes me as a good idea. I appreciate that I know next to nothing > about copyright, and this is almost certainly an infringement, but if we > have a registration-type site, at least it would be possible to keep track > on who has the software. I very much doubt that the downloads would be so > great that anyone would really have a problem about royalties anyway. See above
