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Old 07-23-2018, 05:52 PM   #21
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Regarding rights issues, I'm finding myself thinking about the current shenanigans going on between Victor Miller (writer of the original Friday the 13th movie) and the current rights holders to the series.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/th...t-stake-922911

https://deadentertainment.com/2018/0...-legal-battle/

Notably, there seems to be some sort of copyright provision that after a certain amount of time (35 years?) a freelancer is allowed to re-assert ownership of rights over a freelance project.

Might be something Steve would want to look into?
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Old 07-23-2018, 06:09 PM   #22
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Might be something Steve would want to look into?

I suspect the strategy that Steve used to the rights back to what he did is the 35 year rule.


Recall, though, that other designers contributed solo adventures to Metagaming. It would be they who would have to do whatever legal widdgery-pokery is required to retrieve the rights.
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Old 07-23-2018, 06:21 PM   #23
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Huh . . . I just posted a Kickstarter comment about my solo adventure paragraph scrambler.

Written in Perl.

(Greg participates in one of the model rocketry forums I haunt!)
He may not have seen it. We’ve been talking about it for weeks. I’d be very interested to see this, if I may. It would be a heck of a boon to Microquest writers.
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Old 07-23-2018, 06:25 PM   #24
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That's precisely what he did. He reclaimed the rights to the material that HE authored. He has no rights to material that he was not the author of (though, hopefully, some of those other authors will pursue the same goal).
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Old 07-23-2018, 06:52 PM   #25
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That's precisely what he did. He reclaimed the rights to the material that HE authored. He has no rights to material that he was not the author of (though, hopefully, some of those other authors will pursue the same goal).
Ha! Right... totally spaced on the fact that some of the other old MQ's were authored by other folks.

Hopefully some of those people are still around, and maybe can join forces with Steve or something.
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Old 07-23-2018, 08:41 PM   #26
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The one author that I REALLY hope decides to do something like that is this fella named Guy McLimore. He wrote Grailquest, ya know... ;-)
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