[Scummvm-devel] Discworld distribution. How to proceed?

[Travis Howell]

It would have helped if you had clarified the Discworld 1 & 2 rights in 
initial message, with further proof of expiration dates for previous 
licenses.

I still don't see how any of this helps though, considering Terry 
Pratchett passed away last year, and the rights have passed to his 
daughter (Rhianna Pratchett) now.

On 25/04/2016 11:25 PM, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
> Hi Travis,
>
> First of all, there is much more than that fax, there is a multi-year
> correspondence with Colin Smyth, sir Pratchett's agent.
>
> Second, the rights got returned to about 2005, just by
> the end of that year.
>
> And fax is a legal document in UK.
>
>
> Eugene
>
> On 25 April 2016 at 15:11, Travis Howell <kirben at optusnet.com.au
> <mailto:kirben at optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     A freeware release of Discworld 1 & 2 would require much more proof,
>     than that fax alone. That fax only states Terry Pratchett give his
>     permission, but did the games rights actually revert back to him?
>
>     Discworld 1 & 2 were developed by Perfect 10 Productions/Perfect
>     Entertainment, and part of a multi-game license to Sony
>     Entertainment. Are we sure Sony Entertainment no longer have the
>     rights for Discworld 1 & 2? did they only have limited rights for
>     the games, time wise?
>
>     I would be especially careful, after noting there was a court case
>     about Discworld Noir, based on that multi-game deal with Sony
>     Entertainment.
>
>     On 25/04/2016 9:38 PM, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>
>         Hi Team,
>
>         After all of these years and some consultations around, I
>         finally came
>         up to the conclusion that we could release both Discworld games
>         as freeware.
>
>         This is all based on a fax from 2005, I am attaching a copy
>         which I am
>         going to distribute instead of the license file. Per Colin
>         Smythe in our
>         correspondence with him: "It is our policy NOT to give an official
>         licence if we have already stated that we have have effectively
>         granted
>         freeware."
>
>         Now, we're coming to a different area. Finding a way to
>         distribute the
>         game. The games are pretty big, almost 2Gb combined. We were
>         asked to
>         limit our monthly bandwidth consumption, which makes putting the
>         game
>         straight away a bit problematic.
>
>         Moreover, another big game is coming to be freewared, that is the
>         Hopkins FBI, which is another chunk of versions of about 5GB
>         worth of data.
>
>         Thus, after talking around, I have an idea of putting up our torrent
>         server, and limiting it, say, to 500kb/sec. That will give us
>         1.3Tb of
>         monthly traffic, which is well beyond our thresholds. Also. I
>         can help
>         from my home with a more speedy upload bandwidth. But the main
>         idea is
>         that the users will be helping each other, especially during the
>         peaks
>         after we announce the availability of the games.
>
>         Additionally, I could put the files on the sf.net
>         <http://sf.net> <http://sf.net>, and
>         thus, offer both the direct link and .torrent file from our site.
>
>         So, what do you guys think, should it be the way to go? Or we
>         could just
>         put it on the sf.net <http://sf.net> <http://sf.net> and not
>         mess with the torrents at all?
>
>
>         Eugene
>
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