Disney is a existing company. Disney has a lot of money. Disney makes a lot of money from The mouse. It makes sense to defend the image of that mouse. Now haxar from 1981 created by some small company that folded after that games release and who's primary code writer is dead? People will worry about copyright in porting that cartridge to an emulator for fun? Some people have talked about doing that on forums and have been literally cursed out by some guy that had NOTHING to do with company or the games creation. That's just silly. It may be technically against law but there is nobody around to bring about a complaint. So whose being hurt then? NOBODY. Yet pages of forum debate on its legality coupled with strong language and unfounded accusations exist in the retro game community. Just like in communities for programs for VASSAL and CB it has been discussed now and again. If there is illegality in distrubiting these boxes for download somebody better take Matrix games to task. They are or in the past have been afflicted with VASSAL and the distribution of SPI,AH,VG, TSR and other games in many cases including charts and other text along with artwork for many years now. Yet there hasn't been a peep about legal action.
AS I stated in the case of companies like Avalanche its totally different. They have their stand on the issue and they are a functioning company. Of course that should be respected. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark McGilchrist Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CBML] Re: Avalanche Games As I understand it, Disney spend an awful lot of lobbying money keeping Mickey Mouse in copyright, so I suspect unless a large cheque is included in the letter, this appeal will fall on deaf ears. Compared to the lifespan of patents, the lifespan of copyright is huge. Life of the author plus 70 years IIRC. --- On Sat, 22/11/08, Joel Uckelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:uckelman%40nomic.net> > wrote: F If you're in the US, perhaps writing your representative and senators about the ill effects of current copyright law would be a good idea? -- J. Make the switch to the world's best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail! http://au.yahoo.com/y7mail [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
