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Discworld rerelease "may happen" but depends on "King Charles", developer says
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Whilst this is really just a cute story, if the guy really wanted to get it re released, there are plenty of avenues. Basically, he has to ask them to either sell or dispose of their claim to the ip. They aren't involved in licensing or anything like that. they either sell or dispose of claims.
They probably don't even know they have a claim. If they did they likely would have sold it long ago.
You shouldn’t have to beg them to sell you back your game. Trying to defend this pathetic monarchy in anyway is a joke.
calm down, no one's defending the monarchy.
The Crown is an entity that's part of the UK parliament and thus state, a lot of legal proceedings based on hundreds of years are law just go in there because that's what happens.
It's part of a law that has to deal with vacant goods, goods unclaimed. they have to go somewhere.
This guy didn't own 100% of his stuff, he either gave it away or sold it a long time ago, the people who owned the other half dissolved their company without selling or giving the ip back. so it' goes to the same place that everything in this situation does, it's handled by the governmental legal entity that figures out what to do with them. and yes they do sometimes just say "they don't own it" if they don't care to sell it
it's called Bona Vacantia if you want to go look it up instead of huffing and puffing over it