Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights

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Amiga journalists should answer that, but they tend to prefer to just post info without digging, that's why so many Amigans speculate...

Kamelito

Have you considered the possibility that some questions might have been asked that were not answered? The alternative then becomes reviewing public information. What if the answer you seek doesn't exist in public information and is only available under NDA? Sometimes you can establish that relationship, but then the inability to transmit what you've learned makes the role of the journalist difficult, no?

I know I was involved in many q/a sessions and interviews over the years. In one case a list of questions was delivered to be asked to a 3rd party by the recipient. In the end...no questions were asked despite the work done to put together and edit the list of questions.
Why? Because the person that we expected to answer the questions "might get upset".

You can probably think of other examples of why an interview or q/a doesn't satisfy everyone.

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[number6]

I read through the news, but I'm not quite clear about the *real* contents of the news and the difference between what you imply and what they really own. From the IPs that are listed for Cloanto, I believe they own the RKRMs, and the workbench/kickstart disk *binaries*. Whether they have any rights on the sources still seems to be unclear to me, at least the news article does not claim this, and the table there that lists their IPs neither does say a word about sources.

Thus, I don't quite see the news behind this news. It was clear from the beginning that Cloanto had a right to sell the workbench disks and kickstart ROM images. That's old news. What would be "new news" is whether they have any rights on the sources. That's the only part I would be happy to learn.

It was stated elsewhere:

Should you ever want to create your own official "NG" distribution, you can now go to Cloanto for the required 3.1 license and a license to the "Workbench" name, and then try to license the individual OS4 components from their respective developers.

Beyond that you'd have to address your question to the submitter of the article.

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[number6]

Are you kidding me?

Question : Hello Michele, I heard Cloanto own the right to the AmigaOS source code up to 1993 is that true?

Possible answers:
Answer1 : No
Answer2 : Cloanto made me sign an NDA so I can't tell you but I know.
Answer3 : Yes we own the rights since 2012.
Answer4 : Joker, next question.
Answer5 : If I tell you I'll have to kill you
etc.

So basically you can have an answer.

Kamelito
PS I did some interview in the past too mostly for AmigaNews (the french paper magazine not the site)

The only additional information I can see is how the article is being interpreted regarding how Amiga Games Inc. would provide what they promised, given the comment in the article about emulation:

Amiga Inc. owns the domain name amiga.com as well as all remaining Amiga-related trademarks (partial list, PDF). They do have a license from Cloanto for their activities on the BlackBerry platform, but no license for any other platforms.

That reaction noted:
Here

Note: by now many posts there (links to investor's hub) have been removed, so I'm not sure the context is clear.

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