Comment by eloisant
17 hours ago
If none of the company has any document to prove ownership, because according to the article they lost them, how could they win a lawsuit?
17 hours ago
If none of the company has any document to prove ownership, because according to the article they lost them, how could they win a lawsuit?
It isn’t that they don’t have the documents, it’s that they don’t know if they have the documents and they’re not going to bother to look until there’s a reason to. If someone made the game, presumably they’d call up Iron Mountain and start digging.
Making a game is enough of an investment that you wouldn’t do it if you knew you had a high likelihood of being sued by legitimate rights holders as soon as you started making the news. Digging through paper records from decades ago is enough of an investment that you wouldn’t do it unless you had a reason to also.
Classic stalemate.
That is the gap in the argument of the parent. At least in the US already the threat to sue for copyright infringement has almost such a strong impact as a won lawsuit. You can also see that with things like the DMCA. This is often adhered to, even in ridiculous cases.