[News] Amiga Inc. Plans to Shutdown Illegal Uses of Amiga IP | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Jul-2002 03:51 GMT by STRICQ | 172 comments View flat View list |
The deadline is September 1st, 2002. After then, anyone not on good legal standing with Amiga Inc. will be sued.
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Amiga Inc. Plans to Shutdown Illegal Uses of Amiga IP : Comment 81 of 172 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Kronos on 29-Jul-2002 13:13 GMT | In reply to Comment 78 (Bill Hoggett): >That was a decision regarding VillageTronic's rights to distribute
>material they had licensed before the demise of Commodore.
Right, but do you know what was written in that contract ?
Or the one with MacroSystems (Draco) ?
Were these rights transferable, and if yes who owns them now ?
How were the licence-fees handled, one time upfront, or per copy ?
I simply don't believe that Mr Haage is stupid enough to run into
an "open knife" and I see two possible scenarios:
1. He thinks (thought) AInc won't/can't sue out of finacial restrictations
(or because they don't have a 100% clear ownership themselves).
2. He somehow has found a way to get a legal Kick-licence outside AInc, |
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