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Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« on: February 19, 2015, 04:06:17 PM »
This should clear things up (a little)!
Somebody should jump on that OS3.5/3.9 IP! :rtfm:

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 04:17:39 PM »
This part:
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The status of AmigaOS 3.5/3.9

AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 were developed and distributed by Haage&Partner, under license from Amiga. As far as we know, said license has expired by now (and was even revoked prematurely in OS 3.9's case), meaning that there's no party holding the complete rights to these releases at the moment.

Would be nice to know what parties hold right's to whatever parts of it.

Thanks for sharing the link [size=+1]gizmo350[/size].
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2015, 04:34:09 PM »
Quote from: gizmo350;784895
This should clear things up (a little)!
Somebody should jump on that OS3.5/3.9 IP! :rtfm:

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html


Isn't 3.5/3.9 based on 3.1's IP?  Sounds like you would have to deal with Cloanto as well as H&P.  Oh my, what a mess.
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2015, 06:58:33 PM »
So...a bit confused even after reading it all...does Cloanto own the trademark "Amiga" as applied to hardware?  i.e. could they license the name "Amiga" to AEON so it could finally call its computers "Amiga"s instead of "AmigaOne"s?

It's kind of nice to see that the classic Amiga Operating system is finally with a company that will do something with it (at least by offering it for sale as floppies and in Amiga Forever) rather than Amiga Inc or Tulip that just sat on their Commodore IP.

Does Cloanto now own all the hardware designs to the VIC-20, C64, PET, C128, etc. etc., too?
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2015, 07:08:56 PM »
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Does Cloanto now own all the hardware designs to the VIC-20, C64, PET, C128, etc. etc., too?


Sounds like they'd be owned by Acer.
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2015, 07:10:56 PM »
Time to contact Bernie to start working on the Umilator :-)
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2015, 07:40:26 PM »
yeah-ronimo for c64?
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2015, 08:57:34 PM »
The deal was finished in 2012 and we're just now hearing about it.  Heh.  So much for all those years worth of speculation.  ;)
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2015, 09:13:39 PM »
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does Cloanto own the trademark "Amiga" as applied to hardware?

No - as stated in the article, Amiga Inc. still owns all the trademarks, there's even a link to a list of marks they own.
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2015, 09:14:43 PM »
BTW, this is News-worthy info.  Good find @gizmo!  :hammer:
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2015, 09:47:21 PM »
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No - as stated in the article, Amiga Inc. still owns all the trademarks, there's even a link to a list of marks they own.

Is there such a thing as, "Trademark Trolling?"
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2015, 01:14:53 AM »
Isn't that exactly what Amiga Inc have been doing this whole time?  "Hey we would like to bring back the Amiga!" -some random company.  "Okay, but you can't call it Amiga... oh and you can't run the OS.  And well, you can't do blah blah blah."

Weird thing is, I originally thought of the Boing ball as an Atari thing, I think someone had cloned the Boing Ball Demo for both the Atari 8-bit and Atari ST, because I'm pretty sure the first time I saw it was running on a 1040 ST in a computer shop.

So, the weird question here is... if 3.5/3.9 are really no longer viable to legally upgrade (even though there are BB3 and 4) does that mean Cloanto is going to be releasing things like 3.1BB1?

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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2015, 01:16:37 AM »
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So...a bit confused even after reading it all...does Cloanto own the trademark "Amiga" as applied to hardware?  i.e. could they license the name "Amiga" to AEON so it could finally call its computers "Amiga"s instead of "AmigaOne"s?

It's kind of nice to see that the classic Amiga Operating system is finally with a company that will do something with it (at least by offering it for sale as floppies and in Amiga Forever) rather than Amiga Inc or Tulip that just sat on their Commodore IP.

Does Cloanto now own all the hardware designs to the VIC-20, C64, PET, C128, etc. etc., too?


I'm hoping it is all the more reason for AEON to develop something new so they "own" it and don't need to follow the crowd.  I'm hoping they develop their own operating system, their own patents, etc.
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2015, 04:16:10 AM »
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Time to contact Bernie to start working on the Umilator :-)


Hehehe, that was my first thought too. :)
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Re: Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2015, 07:11:02 AM »
Clear as lawyers.
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