Licensing Kickstart ROMs for Raspberry Pi

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So it would seem that the ROMs are the property of AsiaRIM or who ever owns Commodore rights and that both AI and Hyperion are pirates...

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If Escom didn't get the rights then they remained with the rump of Commodore, which eventually went the Asiarim route.  The copyright went one way or the other, it didn't remain in limbo.

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When they sold off Commodore how did they do it?  The whole thing or bits and pieces?  Escom must have made the purchase from somebody, a creditor or someone.

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Berne Convention, which is in effect outside of the EU and US says 50 years after death.  One of the reasons we're stuck with "the dirge" as a national anthem is because Waltzing Matilda, while public domain here and most of the world, it is still under copyright in those two locations and we would have had to pay royalties when played there!

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There should be no Amiga Patents left, they only last for 17 years...