Ixamyakxim: Am I the only one who wishes someone would just step up and publish / release / sell the game?
It's not "really" a licensed property (off an established franchise) and if the legal rights / ownership are such a mess, why can't an entity just take a shot at "stealing" it, officially?
Again, if it's such a tangled web and some established publisher puts it out there as its own and basically says "Hey, if you own, sue me" what's the risk? Again, if it's *really* so confusing as to who owns it, who would step up and try to defense it in this situation?
And if it DID make so much money that it suddenly became worth it to actually try and mount a legal action - so be it right? By that point true ownership can either be settled on / purchased etc.
Because the groups fighting over the legal rights to the game would unite on one thing.....that no onw is going to :Steal" the game. They would all come after you with their lawyers. You would get a cease and desist order from a jusge in about five minutes.
And no business is going to knowingly walk into a legal minefield. Suggest this to GOG, and their legal department would die laughing at you.
Ixamyakxim: Am I the only one who wishes someone would just step up and publish / release / sell the game?
It's not "really" a licensed property (off an established franchise) and if the legal rights / ownership are such a mess, why can't an entity just take a shot at "stealing" it, officially?
Again, if it's such a tangled web and some established publisher puts it out there as its own and basically says "Hey, if you own, sue me" what's the risk? Again, if it's *really* so confusing as to who owns it, who would step up and try to defense it in this situation?
And if it DID make so much money that it suddenly became worth it to actually try and mount a legal action - so be it right? By that point true ownership can either be settled on / purchased etc.
Pond86: They wount though. As a few times when someone has attempted to (such as the HD remasters that were being done a while back.) 3 different companies jump and threaten legal action. So the people who are developing it back down and halt it. It annoys me as if you ask the people who threaten directly if they own any rights to it they deny it.
The whole thing is a mess and its a great shame.
Btw the three companies that currently and apparently have the rights to it are 20th Century Fox, Activision & Warner Bros.
Shades of the Batman TV show DVD's. It took Warners and Fox over 25 years to work out the DVD rights to the 1966 show.That is why we did not get it on D VD/BLuray until 2014.
