Mr. Ian Taylor of IMPRINT said in his letter that if the TFT material
was not really abandoned, he'd take it off of his web site. If
someone who knows for certain that he's breaking the rules were to
write to him at avalon@ois.com.au and tell him, I think he'd do the
right thing.
--Scott
On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Peter von Kleinsmid wrote:
I assume the copyright holder needs to come forward and complain
though for anything to happen, no?
At 05:38 PM 1/11/06 -0500, Joe Hartley wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:23:18 -0800 (PST)
Christopher Fuhrman <fuhrman8or@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The issue with TFT redistribution for a fee is obviously whether
> "abandoned" games are public domain.
I've done _way_ too much research into this, and learned that at
least in terms of printed materials, they cannot be "abandoned". A
copyright can expire, though the term of copyright is now greatly
extended
thanks to Diznee's coercion of the US gubmint.
Someone, or some legal entity out there, owns the copyrights on
all the
TFT stuff, and just because the works are not actively in print, the
owner still has all the rights to it.
This is in direct contrast to trademarks, which must be actively
enforced by the holder lest they lose them - ask me about my
domain name
sometime!
My guess is that Imprint is just hoping they don't get caught.
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