[Coco] [Color Computer] Copyrights

[Derek]

I would like the whole Copyright Topic declared as OT for the group list. Anyone else agree?



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--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Steve <6809er at bjork-huffman.net> wrote:
From: Steve <6809er at bjork-huffman.net>
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Copyrights
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 1:46 PM

Please note, most of the third party software that sold by them was 
only "licensed for sell" and no time was the copyrights every 
transferred to them.  (This is true with all the code that I wrote for them.)

This last part was very interesting, ....

>Tandy, in selling the store to AST back in 1993, got the right to continue
>to support their customers, and that was taken to mean (by Tandy) that
Tandy
>could make and sell replacement disks for operating systems and things
owned
>by Tandy.  However, Tandy got greedy and started making copies of anything
>they had ever sold, regardless of who wrote it and who held the copyright,
>including products that Tandy never actually duplicated/manufactured, like
>SCO for PCs.  Microsoft, Lotus, Borland and lots of other people could have
>sued Tandy big-time over the replacement disk program, particularly after
>Tandy stopped looking for proof of purchase before selling anybody a $7
copy
>of anything, but the rightful owners didn't sue Tandy, at least not
yet.

While I still have to send the last part to lawyer, but it looks like 
Tandy has broken their licence agreement with me. (I never got any 
payments after 1993.)  If so, then they no longer have their exclude 
marketing agreement on my products.

This good news for the CoCo Community.  Why? This was one of the 
blocks to doing something with my CoCo software publicly.  I do still 
have one other block left and I hope to hear from my lawyer soon on it.

Steve Bjork

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