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Originally posted by Borodin@Jan 4 2005, 01:57 AM
*footnote* There is nothing called Abandonware.
It's illigal, it's copyright-theft, it's against the law.
But how can it be copyright-theft, if the publishers owned the rights, ceased to exist, and never sold their intellectual property to anybody else? Granted, this isn't often the case, but I have quite a few titles out of the 1980s--such as Mindcraft's. The publisher/developer never sold the rights, but the company ceased to exist. If this isn't abandonware, then who holds the copyright in such matters?
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The ppl who created the code, as persons, if theire contract didn't say otherwhise..
That's exactly why this is such a tricky matter.