Is Amiga Inc's claim to AOS valid?

[mongo]

I, personally, am of the opinion that AInc claim is invalid (which would then make Hyperion's license invalid).

Than who do you think owns it?

[mongo]

It may come down to who has a liability claim against Commodore Business Machines, Inc. and Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

All claims were settled during the bankruptcy proceedings. That was the whole point of them.

[mongo]

I really wish you would stop using American laws for your examples, USA laws don't apply the rest of the world, each country has it's own laws and length of times such things apply for... so it would depend under which countries laws the documents were signed...


Example UK copyright laws (time limits)...

http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/copyright/Page171.html

If something was copyrighted in the USA, than the time limits of the USA apply to it, according to the Berne Convention, of which the UK is a party to.

[mongo]

While a copyright exists for anything a person creates they must also protect that copyright to maintain it.

Don't confuse copyright and trademark. Trademarks need to be protected, copyrights do not.

[mongo]

That's the whole point though, is it piracy if whomever allegedly owns the stuff couldn't care less about these things being free to download on numerous sites on the web...

Oh, if that's the whole point then let me clear it up for you.

Yes, it is piracy.

[mongo]

That's your opinion and your entitled to it but I beg to differ on the matter...

So I'm afraid your "opinion" doesn't clear it up for me...

It's not my opinion, it's a fact.

Erm... wrong again I don't know for a fact that someone owns the copyright as no-one has so far given conclusive proof that they do...

Has the copyright expired? No? Than someone owns it. It doesn't really matter if you know who they are or not.