Re: [ARMini-support] Insignia / copyright manual
- From: Jim Lesurf <jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 13:26:12 +0100
In article <c0c7fdf556.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jim Nagel <jimmini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve Fryatt wrote on 10 May:
The short answer is: the copyright doesn't just vanish. Someone gets the
assets from the company, so it isn't just a free-for-all.
The company has abandoned interest in the software (Insignia, which
apparently is now Texteffx, freeware since 2007).
Exceeding strange that the defunct company or its heirs&successors
would still care about the manual for the abandoned software. The
words dog and manger would come to mind.
I doubt they would care. But, legally, they could decide to do so.
However this area of IPR is essentially one of civil law. So they'd have to
take someone to court. Then prove that some 'damage' was done to them to be
able to claim any 'damages'. That should be hard if they haven't bothered
to keep something published or accept token payments if someone else makes
a copy.
So I suspect they'd have to be bloody-minded with deep pockets to do it.
But if they did, it might be a PITA for the person sued.
Personally I've long felt that copyrights should revert to the author when
a company that bought them goes under. And also that "fish or cut bait"
should be a maxim here. (Its the polite version. :-) )
Having items 'locked away' by IPR does no good for anyone but companies who
hoover it up to stifle competion. Generally bad news for authors and
artists, etc.
Nuff said.
Jim
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