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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: When the Game Publisher folds ...
Keywords: keeping rights
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Date: 7 Jun 90 17:20:53 GMT
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In article <1990Jun7.034349.23142@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Game designers who sell their games to publishers should retain rights
>to the games, such that the full rights revert to the designer if 1)
>the game company folds, or 2) the game company ceases publishing the
>game for two years or more.

2 years is too much.  All my contracts revert the rights to the author if the
publisher ceases publication for more than 6 months (with a 30-day notice
to the publisher to fix the problem or the contract is terminated).

-- Marco
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