News: Licensing an Abandonware Game?

[News Bot]

WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it worth dealing with all the copyrights and paying money if I want to recreate an abandonware title as an open source game? I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but there is a real possibility that this game's copyright holder will do nothing with the rights, and I'd much prefer preserving it for others than letting it fade away."


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[mastermesh]

yes... get the copyrights if you are going to do it... otherwise you'll be sorry later. Better option would be to just use another game engine... there's lots of free ones out there.