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I can see why this game is infamous for being a quagmire in terms of ownership and rights. Booting it up, one sees the Sierra logo, the Fox logo and the Monolith logo(who were for some time owned by Warner Brothers). Any one of those companies on their own would lead to a convoluted labyrinth of IP difficulties, given how often they have changed hands. But all of them together? Yikes! The only way it could have been worse is if Sony or Atari had been involved!
The only upside is that if you were to acquire it through… alternative means, the respective companies’ goons would be too busy fighting amongst themselves over whose jurisdiction it is to actually go after you!

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It is a lot of splash screens and logos, for the era at least. One would think that registering for copyright could serve as a kind of chain of ownership. Though in this era of global copyrights and matrix of laws, the complexity explodes.

Ultimately it’s probably destroying as much culture as copyright is encouraging to be created.

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