Commodore B-128 series

From: Gil Parrish <107765.1161_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Thu Jul 17 08:33:22 1997

Message text written by INTERNET:classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
>Any of you hard core commodore folks know who might have ended up
owning the rights to this stuff?<

No clue. Commodore, of course, went bankrupt. Originally, it looked like
ESCOM ended up with everything. I made several efforts to contact ESCOM
through e-mail to determine what their plans were for the old 8-bits items,
and never could get a reply. Then, ESCOM went bankrupt. I'm not clear if
the Commodore bankruptcy court sort of cancelled the deal retroactively, or
if the assets were moved again in the ESCOM bankruptcy. Anyway, another
party (Gateway?) ended up with the Amiga assets, but they don't have-- or
aren't acknowledging that they have-- the old 8-bit assets. Frankly, I
doubt this point will ever be clarified.

If the old entities have been disolved, and no new entities obtained the
rights before the dissolution, it would seem to me this stuff is now public
domain. Of course, the simplest way to find out would be to start treating
this stuff as public domain. If any entity out there believes it has the
copyrights, it will then make itself known.

Gil Parrish
107765.1161_at_compuserve.com
Received on Thu Jul 17 1997 - 08:33:22 BST