WolverineOfLove - Slashdot User

Submission + - License an Abandonware Game? (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by WolverineOfLove on Thursday March 11, 2010 @07:06PM

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 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.

Journal Journal: Should I license a copyright for a remake of an Abandonware title? 14

Journal by WolverineOfLove on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:49PM

I'm in the process remaking an abandonware game that I used to play when I was young on my family's DOS computer. It was published by a private company in the 1980s that folded a few years later amidst a legal battle. As a business in the United States, the company had registered materials for its products with copyrights. Today, the game's creator no longer has legal rights to the name, however, he continued to work on the franchise for a while, even hiring a programmer to create a GUI seque

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