Re: [SWCollect] Distributing Drash (and all old software)

2004-03-16 Thread Jim Leonard
Lee K. Seitz wrote: You're confusing copyrights and trademarks. (Incidentally, IANAL I used the wrong word but I was indeed talking about trademarks. Further more, Kleenex and Xerox are still quite valid trademarks, although they are in danger of becoming public domain. Better examples of lost

Re: [SWCollect] Distributing Drash (and all old software)

2004-03-15 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard stated: > >Intellectual Property Rights: In a nutshell: Companies own copyrights >on the images, code, etc. contained in a software program for as long as >they protect them. That means that, as long as a company asks you to >take down that copy of King's Quest from your website,

Re: [SWCollect] Distributing Drash (and all old software)

2004-03-15 Thread C.E. Forman
> To arguments of fakes: Yes, I agree that is a concern. But since the > image is already out there, as well as .JPGs of what the casette and box > look like, that possibility already exists. True, but you'd need a decent size image to be able to print a box from and make it look halfway authent

[SWCollect] Distributing Drash (and all old software)

2004-03-15 Thread Jim Leonard
As the creator of this list, I was asked by a few people to comment on Howard's offer to post the Vic20 emulator .tape format of Mt. Drash to this list. Everyone who contacted me deemed it a bad idea. I hate to break this to everyone who doesn't like the idea, but the Vic20 emu file of Mt. Dra