KS Copyright
Hi,
I'm brushing up a bit on the whole copyright thing and investigating how the latest incarnation of Amiga would have had to protect the KS ROM copyright. Something really interesting has just turned up when checking the United States copyright office. I've gone through the whole thing and looked everywhere and can find no reference to the 3.0 or 3.1 ROM's as being copyrighted. LINK |
HI do a search for Amiga Operating system,
Amiga OS and Software revision 3.1 is found.... |
Hi,
That's interesting. 3.1 is not called Amiga OS which is what they have registered it as. Also transfer of copyright has to have the express title of the work on all it's mediums. That would be Kickstart 3.1 No. XXXX (Like the old Commodore registered it like) and Workbench v XXXX. For a copyright to hold you have to express it as a medium. They've goofed up and registered Amiga OS3.1. If you look back at the copyrights transfered from Commodore you will see everything up to 2.05. They've made the 3.1 copyright themselves. I suspect it wasn't transfered and they did it anyway. Transfer has to be granted by writing by the original author. Now that leaves KS 3.0. I don't see that either. |
Just incase it turns out I'm right.
Amiga Inc. you can't register a copyright after the fact. Employer for hire? No they certainly weren't. |
hmmm wouldn't a lot of KS3.0 code be protected by IP by the KS2.05 and prior ?
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They could then refer to 2.05 as part of the copyright. It's like the same book with 2 different titles, you would copyright both. It's the title and work within that's copyrighted. Besides transfer of copyright has to be registered, I find no trace of 3.0 and 3.1 looks dubious. 3.1 actually does not include any other titles anyway. Have a look here. |
Sorry my bad for not explaining clearly.
CBM never released anything called OS3.0 or OS3.1.(Escom did). |
Don't know where you're reading your copyright law, Mr. Eclipse, but you're very wrong. Nothing needs to be registered for copyright to be enforced. All Kickstart versions are copyrighted from their moment of inception.
In the U.K: "Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. To qualify, a work should be regarded as original, and exhibits a degree of labour, skill or judgement." Not only is registration unnecessary, but there is nowhere in the U.K to register with regardless. In the U.S: "While copyright in the United States automatically attaches upon the creation of an original work of authorship, registration with the Copyright Office puts a copyright holder in a better position if litigation arises over the copyright. " Registration is not necessary, and is purely for the paranoid to show proof of creation. |
So if original creator of KS didn't copyright kickstart, what proof can Amiga Inc. show that they created KS3.1 or own IP rights? :nuts
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Try booting an Amiga and see what it says there...
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When Commodore went bust, Escom would have had to register as the new copyright holder. It's the only circumstance in which you do need to register it. From the US Copyright Office: Quote:
Do you guys not remember that Escom didn't actually want them? They only really wanted the Commodore name and the Patents that go with it. They wanted nothing really to do with the Amiga. |
And what's your point?
ps. Is anyone from Amiga Inc. reading this? :blased That's of course if they've learned how to read. :cheese |
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Except for most needed 1.3 and 2.04.
But still, it would be nice to be able to let people use 3.X :cheese |
truth is though... i can see it being taken to court...
People V's A(_._).STinc ".... so what evidence of the transference of copyright do mr McEwan ?...", said Judge Jones. Bill pulls smalll crumped up paper from pocket... "... see if you look carefully.. its says clearly here in crayola and in Fleecy's handwriting that the IP was signed for by CBM.... honest....." yeah..... its a moot point arguable.... i am not even sure that A.Inc even really OWN them.... i reckon they license them... but from whom?????...... |
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Although.... I used to play city of heroes and was around when Marvel tried to sue them for copyright infringement. You would be amazed at some of the lengths companies go to to try and claim copyright. The marvel vs Cryptic case is widely reported on the net if you need to take a look. It transpired that Marvel created the offending copyrights in the game themselves!! More interestingly some of the so called copyrights they didn't have rights to at all, a lot had not been transferred correctly and some were even public domain. There is a very long thread on the COH website about it. |
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@Siggy99
Hello there, Welcome to the EAB, theres plenty of mischief to get up to around here, so kick back and make yourself comfy and enjoy the honey coated retr0-ness that this fair board provides... although in retrospect, as much as i could wish that KS 3.x was free from AI's tyranny this is not so... but i can dream, and i can wish... and I would absolutely die laughing if they lost the bit of paper, (and were not clever enough to knock up a new one lol) |
Remember that KS3.1 is post Commodore.
It was published by VillageTronic |
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