On Oct 23, 2004, at 6:33 pm, Duncan Malcolm Alexander Mackenzie (via
Dan Doore) wrote:
It has come to my attention that people are distributing and selling
products that they do not own the rights to. Any products and rights by
Persona Software were owned by Malcolm Mackenzie, my late father. In
turn
these rights were handed down to me. I do not recall anyone contacting
me
about purchasing of rights. Anyone found distributing any of this
software
should contact me immediately on 07753192008 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Failure
to do so will result in legal action. Thank you.
I wonder why he wrote to Dan in particular; I don't think there's
anything copyrighted on any of the major sites you link to, is there?
Unless he's referring to Chris Pile's Defender clone. Hmm.
Probably nobody contacted him because nobody knew who he was, or that
he owned the rights. Heck - I even *wrote* something which was
distributed by Persona, and until this email I wasn't sure who - if
anyone - is allowed to distribute it any more. Now that there is a
contact to represent Persona, I'll send him an email and see if he
agrees to me putting Syncytium on my web site for free download.
Although, given that his first contact contains a threat of legal
action, that doesn't seem immediately likely. I truly dearly hope that
Duncan isn't out to make a quick buck out of someone else's work.
Ideally, this would become an opportunity to sort out the required
permissions to make the whole of the Persona catalogue available again.
Not necessarily for free, although personally I'd prefer that because
at this stage I think it holds mainly historic rather than financial
value. I think it's more important to get the software distributed
widely before all the floppy disks have died and it's too late.
Andrew
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