Licensing an Abandonware Game?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 12, 2010 @07:37PM from the rolling-the-dice dept.

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."

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Re:Forget about the copyright by the_fat_kid · 2010-03-12 20:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn it!
I have a mod point and I don't know whether to call you a troll or insightful.
touche.

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Re:Talk to people who have done it before by biryokumaru · 2010-03-13 02:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

On the internet, you can actually turn words into links. I believe this technology is referred to as "Hypertext."

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