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Message: 4705
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 11/03/2005
Subject: Re: JSW's current copyright
Daniel wrote:
>Party Willy is my latest /JSW/ game (released in April 2004).
> In the text files accompanying his games, including the latest one
> ("Party Willy"),
My latest /game/ is Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman
(released in November 2004).
> Andrew Broad says that the copyright of Jet Set Willy is currentlyBut between releasing Party Willy and releasing MM:N-AT, I learned
> owned by Jester Interactive (since 2001).
that Jester Interactive owned only a licence to make commercial
MM/JSW games, and that the Software Projects copyright was owned by
Tommy Barton (cf. Messages 4259 and 4277 of this Group).
> However, in his latest interview, Matthew Smith says that AdvancedI would assume that Matthew knows best.
> Mobile Solutions currently owns the rights to Jet Set Willy.
> I hope it does not affect us either way, but just out ofThis has always been a confusing issue for us, but in practice
> curiosity:
> does anyone know for certain what the legal situation of JSW is?
nobody should be bothered about us offering unofficial sequels as
free downloads, and I haven't heard of any threats of litigation
regarding the distribution of *Spectrum* MM/JSW games in the nine
years since I discovered the Spectrum-emulation scene.
A further complication is the copyright of the /character/ of Miner
Willy, as distinct from the copyright of the games. Perhaps it's
Advanced Mobile Solutions who own the former, and Tommy Barton who
owns the latter?
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
P.S. I now expect to remain in full-time employment until the end of
May, so my plans to start writing JSW:Afrikaan and MM:Outside are
still on hold.
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