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If the company has to go through the pain of tracking down that contract after initially refusing to, I'd expect that they wouldn't settle, both to send a messa
by Floegipoky 11y ago
If the company has to go through the pain of tracking down that contract after initially refusing to, I'd expect that they wouldn't settle, both to send a message and to try to squeeze out as much money as they can in damages.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoPossibly, in reading the article it seemed that Activision, 20th Century, and Warner could not agree on who owned the rights. As it mentioned that is unresolvable directly (none of the three are publishing a new version or re-using the content). So the only way to resolve the ownership question is to draw a lawsuit, where either the courts will find that it has been abandoned (win) or they argue amongst themselves and come up with one person who is the owner. I'm not a lawyer but if there is a writ you could file to have the courts declare it abandoned, that would work too, perhaps @rayiner will step in on that question.
- icebraining 11y agoAs far as I know, copyright doesn't expire even if the work is "abandoned" or even "orphaned" (like when a company folds without transferring it). There were two bills to change this, but neither went through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works_in_the_United_Sta...
- anigbrowl 11y agoSPV baby, that's what they're for.