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Hi Michael,
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Thanks for enlighten me on the U.S. side of the copy right.
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I found an Adi Software in Karlsruhe, and will ask them in my best German if they are the successor of the aforementioned Adi of Adimens GT.
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Have fun
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Armand
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Op 23-07-2023 02:06 CEST schreef Bro. Michael Henry <bromichaelhenry@gmail.com>:
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 3:25 PM Armand Colleye <<a href="mailto:armand.colleye@planet.nl">armand.colleye@planet.nl</a>> wrote:
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Hi,
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The Germans adhere the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Society_Directive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EU Copyright Directive</a> 93/98/EEC.
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So, if Adi Software is declared bankrupt, the copyright retains to their owners still 70 years before it comes into the public domain.
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Unless the new owner publish it in the GNU public licence like Caldera did it with the old DRI-software.
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Correct, unless no one purchased the IP in bankruptcy court or if the owner just shut itself down then it gets murky. In the U.S. a corporation owns everything in the business, people own stocks or shares. So, if a corporation closes, everything or mostly everything is either sold off or forgotten about. Once a corporation is shut down, it no longer exists on paper or legally. So some software can still be copyrighted but have no copyright owners in existence. Hence the term "abandonware".
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I do not know about this program, whether it was sold off, liquidated, or forgotten but the German GEM runtime was owned by Digital Research. It should be covered under the open source copyright.
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