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   From: nospam.rickbalkins@nospam.wavestarinteractive.com   
      
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   > larry@portcommodore.com wrote:   
   >> A) you get permission from the initial author to reprint the material.   
   >   
   > For corporate authorship, that would be the original copyright holder   
   > unless the copyright have reverted to the personal author.   
      
   Corporate works are likely not reverted to the personal author(s) but who   
   knows.   
      
   Contact Yeahronimo Media Ventures (Commodore International B.V.) about it.   
   Yeahronimo is purchasing ALL of the Commodore rights owned by Tulip. All of   
   the non-Amiga Commodore rights that wasn't dead was owned by Escom AG was   
   divested into a company called Commodore IP B.V. which was acquired by Tulip   
   and is being sold or sold to Yeahronimo Media Ventures. Though it is unclear   
   as for how much of the rights as the US Patents & Trademarks Office hasn't   
   been updated all that much on the assignee transfers.   
      
   > This is likely to be either Tulip or the people who have done the DTV,   
      
   The people who done the DTV has NO ownership of ANY of the original   
   Commodore rights.   
   (Except for software titles). The hardware designer - Jeri Ellsworth rights   
   simply pertain to the FPGA C-One cores and hardware design and the DTV ASIC   
   core (which may in some way be ultimately owned by Commodore International   
   B.V. and/or Mammoth Toys. Exact details, unknown.   
      
   > unless someone obtained ownership of the copyright on the PRG before   
   > all residual rights were acquired by Tulip.  The latter (DTV makers)   
   > have every financial incentive to allow the PRG to be distributed as   
   > widely and freely as possible (zero cost to them, any sales of DTV   
   > units for hacking is revenue moving toward profit, NPV guaranteed to be   
   > positive).  Tulip has less direct incentive, but if they want to get a   
   > free ride off nostalgia, there is no reason they should stand in the   
   > way.   
      
   The DTV maker = Jeri Ellsworth. Mammoth Toys, manufacturer. Commodore   
   International B.V. - Trademarks and Copyright holder (of the Kernal & BASIC   
   ROMs) and perhaps the technology rights of the DTV itself. Ironstone   
   Partners - unsure but involved in the software titles collection and of   
   course the individual software copyright holders such as Hewson whom still   
   holds the rights and company trademark and name.   
      
   As for Jeri's ownership rights or the details of such is unclear. Jeri has   
   some contractual element and permission of usage is unclear and to what   
   detail though Commodore may very well hold the primary on it.   
      
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