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Licensing an Abandonware Game?
WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it worth dealing with all the copyrights and paying money if I want to recreate an abandonware title as an open source game? I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but there is a real possibility that this game's copyright holder will do nothing with the rights, and I'd much prefer preserving it for others than letting it fade away."
What would 3DRealms do if someone just went ahead and wrote / released an open source version of Duke Nukem Forever.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
imo instead of bionic commando it should be bionic fartmando. instead of having a bionic arm you eat cans of super beans and fart to kill enemies. you also fart to jump, so the amount of beans you eat means that your jumps are limited. so to clear levels in the best way you have to conserve your farts and figure out how to do the least jumping. anyway bionic fartmando. code it up and i'll buy it. also i'll buy a second copy for my son marticock.
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incorporate the company, float it on the stock exchange with a market cap of $1. sell i to some bum on the street for $1.5 and have him name you CIO,CFO and CEO. then when it all goes wrong your just an employee doing as you were told.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
Goes to show what you know! We think we're experts at EVERYTHING, not just law. And we're pedantic and petty! We know it better than you do and your spelling sux and your mother ate worms! And we're abusive. I'll demonstrate: Get it right, loser!
(Anyone who mods this as anything other than humour is a complete moron).
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... It would never come out and I'm out of gum..
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Gosh, you are trying to code Duke Nukem Forewer on your own ????
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
"I'll rip your L shape off and shit down your T shape"?