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Activision forced Al Lowe to cancel his Leisure Suit Larry source code auctions
- melevittfl 8y agoIf he owns a legally made copy of the source code, and I accept that’s a big if, then he is perfectly within his rights to sell that single copy under the first sale doctrine. It’s a shame that this bit of history will likely end up lost.
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- userbinator 8y agoOr it'll surface in a torrent or file sharing site...
- jiveturkey 8y agowhy do you think that’s likely? seems a stretch to reach that conclusion.
- benologist 8y agoSame delightful company that baked gambling into games for young audiences, for which they may yet face criminal charges. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-10-belgian-gambling-commission-lays-out-recommendations-over-illegal-loot-boxes https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-10-belgian-ga... Hopefully the EFF and Al Lowe can get them for violating his copyright on some decades old code re-used in "their" games.
- WalterGR 8y agoHopefully the EFF and Al Lowe can get them for violating his copyright on some decades old code re-used in "their" games. I haven’t heard about this. Source?
- benologist 8y agoI'm not saying it exists but their argument is Activision own other Sierra titles like King's Quest, and the LSL code includes decades-old code copied from those decades-old games. It would make sense that the opposite is true and when Sierra made their many sequels they copied from the LSL code as convenient too.
- WalterGR 8y agoIt would make sense that the opposite is true and when Sierra made their many sequels they copied from the LSL code as convenient too. How does that mean that Activism violated his copyright? Since Sierra sold Leisure Suite Larry, they acquired at least some rights to it. Without looking at the paperwork, a claim that Activism violated his copyright is pure, unadulterated FUD. So it seems like the following. Same delightful company that baked gambling into games for young audiences, for which they may yet face criminal charges. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-10-belgian-gambling-commission-lays-out-recommendations-over-illegal-loot-boxes https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-10-belgian-ga... Off-topic ad hominem. Hopefully the EFF and Al Lowe can get them for violating his copyright on some decades old code re-used in "their" games. FUD.
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- binarymax 8y agoThe source is this article we're discussing, in which Activision claims that some LSL code is in other Sierra games like Kings Quest
- afpx 8y agoCopyright laws seem really out of date. They were originally established to protect individual authors from theft from publishers. In fact, here’s the first line of the US copyright office’s description of the laws: “It is a principle of American law that an author of a work may reap the fruits of his or her intellectual creativity for a limited period of time.” The irony is that the publishers have since bypassed the intent of the laws by just buying all the author’s rights before being published. Yes, I know. Activision owns the copyrights. But, the principle intent of the laws was to reward individuals, not huge corporations.
- MrMember 8y agoIn this instance Activision doesn't even know if they own the copyright to anything in the auction. They think they might and forced him to take it down just in case.
- phendrenad2 8y agoNot quite. There could be "shared code", in which case the publisher has... and here you're expecting me to say "every right". But I won't. Because what the publisher has, is in fact, an obligation. You see, if you think someone is infringing on your copyright, and you ignore it, you open yourself up to more egregious infirngement by others. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but that's my understanding of the situation.
- georgeecollins 8y agoThe most common way an individual reaps the reward of their copyright is by selling it to a corporation.