[Coco] [Color Computer] Copyrights

[Arthur Flexser]

That seems like overkill to me, as it includes not only general copyright
comments, but also stuff that is highly specific to the CoCo, not to mention
interesting, such as Steve Bjork's post that you quote from.

Art

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Derek wrote:

> I would like the whole Copyright Topic declared as OT for the group list.
> Anyone else agree?
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> ** Mistrust Authority. Promote Decentralization **
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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
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> 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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