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? -- Video games: http://www.angelfire.com/tn/squirrels TW (online game): http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/1367 Magic cards: http://www.angelfire.com/tn/squirrels/magic.html ***** ATTENTION NEWBIES: Limit signatures to four lines! ***** -- Stella list is Administered by krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Glenn Saunders> Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html +-shameless plugs-------------------------------------------------------+ | Stella documentary at http://www.primenet.com/~krishna | | Nick's VCS links via http://www.primenet.com/~nickb/atariprg.htm | | Write the best game, win framed autographs of famous Atari alumni!! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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