»freakmonger Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 Found this when looking around on the internet. Interview with BDE
L.C. Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 Question: One of the most important issues, at least from a player standpoint, deals with the future of Subspace. Does Ozaq2 plan to update the current program, sell off the rights to a third party, or just leave things as they are now? Answer: Mark and I plan to invest in the code upgrading the existing source to improve playability and response times via the web. This is a two step process for us, priority is now focused on locating and doing deals with the original programming and development team. Stage one will provide a code update to the existing 2D game, stage 2 will see the full development of a 3D real time environment.Eh, 3D? Too bad it won't ever happen now?
»1587200 Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 This was back in 2000 before abandonware was constructed. Continuum is abandonware, BDE has no rights to anything anymore. They gave up all rights when they decided to no longer pursue development of the application (as far as I know).
JoWie Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 Abandonware has no legal meaning:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware In the US copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the author, or 120 years after the creation. For corporate its 95 years after first publication or 120 years after the creation.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
PoLiX Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 And this game was copyrighted by a UK based company. Does that have any effect? Atleast the UK Copyrights that is.
»doc flabby Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 The trademark "SubSpace" expired in 2005 so we are free to call this game or any future game subspace now.
Dav Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 next we need to make subspace II (looks at the coders here)
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