Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!udel!princeton!phoenix!mpsimon From: mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Compute!'s Atari ST Keywords: Going, going, GONE Message-ID: <3166@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 88 01:22:06 GMT References: <687@scbhq.UUCP> <3cdbea4e.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 28 In article <3cdbea4e.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> acn@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jon Brode) writes: > >I've heard that Compute! didn't allow BBS's to post software from the >magazines disks. Now that they are no longer supporting the ST, will >they allow us to post their old programs on Bulliten Boards? (or >ftp'able archives...) > >Jon Brode -- acn@caen.engin.umich.edu >(Commander-in-Chief of the Atari forces at U of M) > > > > My guess is: 'probably not'. They still own the copyrights to those programs, which may prove to be of some value. A friend of mine once wrote a computer game for Compute!, and he received royalties each time it was converted to a different computer. The fact that Compute! and company no longer support the ST does not totally eliminate the value of their copyrights. Of course, if Compute! published a written statement making all of their ST programs public domain, then you would be perfectly correct to post them. But if Compute! remains silent, I think the wisest choice of action is to respect the original copyrights. --Patrick Simon mpsimon@phoenix.princeton.edu 6/26/88