Activision forced Al Lowe to cancel his Leisure Suit Larry source code auctions
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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.
I haven’t heard about this. Source?
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.
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-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.
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.
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.
It’s a shame that this bit of history will likely end up lost.