Re: [stella] Piracy

Subject: Re: [stella] Piracy
From: Greg Miller <gmiller@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:39:06 -0600
Chris Cracknell wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.BSI.3.96.980110010148.20746B-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:
> >Crackers wrote:
> >> I have an entirely different perspective of this.
> >
> >I know you do, but going ahead and doing it your way under protest is
> >called being inconsiderate.
> >
> >This was the main reason I got pissed off at Bob for putting the WAVs up
> >on his web site against my protests.  I'll give him credit for taking the
> >WAVs down and not putting them back up.
> ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
> 
> Bob had permission of Bridgestone media to put the .WAVs up on his site.
> And before you go into the "Permission of Atari" thing, it turns out
> that their permission isn't needed at all because Atari doesn't exist anymore.

Not true at all. JTS/Atari still exists, with all the same legal rights
they had before.

> 
> Read the copyright law. Only the owner of a copyright has the ability to
> grant usage rights.

Unless they grant that right to someone else.

> 
> Atari only had "Exclusive Usage Rights" they did not own the copyrights.
> Therefore Atari did not have the legal rights to grant usage to another
> body. Atari could not transfer their Exclusive Usage Rights to JTS and

Assuming they were not granted the right to do so in the license.

> If... if... if... We've been hearing your "ifs" ever since Stella went out
> of production. If doesn't cut it for the people who want to play the
> Supercharger games but wern't one of the lucky few to get a CD.
> So either give it up, or re-issue the damn CD. Bridgestone is willing to
> talk terms, remove Polo from the CD and you don't have to worry about
> JTS. Bridgestone even said they'd be willing to grant commercial usage
> rights of the Starpath library (although those rights will cost significantly
> more than not-for-profit usage).

Chris, do you ever say anything that ISN'T an attempt to justify your
own interests?

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