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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?

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.