Re: Switching to Linux and C

Hold on guys. If you buy the ownership to intellectual properties, you don't pay royalties. However, if you license (which may require a licensing fee and payment of royalties, that is different. If Cloanto owns the copyrights then they are not required to pay royalties to those copyrights. 

Now, I think there is a general misunderstanding of what was said. Try re-reading the sentence.

It's more like, when a commercial product containing the ROMs built in, Mike of Cloanto gets comments from people, "Why aren't you pursuing this?" and "You (Cloanto) should be getting their cut". Cloanto has been a bit selective about picking their legal battles regarding the ROMs or at least has not pursued legal battles at this time.

There may be reasons. 


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>     On August 26, 2017 at 9:17 AM Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com> wrote:
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>     On 8/26/2017 10:47 AM, groepaz@gmx.net wrote:
>     >
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>         > > 
> >             > > > 
> > >             From speaking to Mike at CRX this year, the copyrights that he
> > >             purchased came with contractual royalty strings attached. So when
> > >             somebody throws up a kickstarter or whatever showing a commercial
> > >             product with C=/Amiga ROMs built in, he gets nastygrams from them saying
> > >             "Why aren't you pursuing this? I should be getting a cut!" That's
> > >             likely the source of selectiveness for where Cloanto choses to pursue.
> > >             that sounds fishy by itself - either copyright is transferred to you, or you
> > >             licensed the IP in question and pay royalties for it. AFAIK there is no legal
> > >             scenario in which you both register the IP on yourself AND pay royalties for
> > >             it to a third party. it doesnt make a lot of sense either (only the owner of
> > >             the IP can register it, and the owner does not pay royalties to himself).
> > > 
> > >         > > 
> >         Maybe it's just a lack of understanding of copyrights. Not everyone
> >         understand the intricacies. Maybe it is safer to say he purchased
> >         rights to those copyrights, and he needs to pay a royalty on any sales,
> >         as part of the rights purchase contract. But, like you, I know of no
> >         scenarios where one can purchase a copyright and then still have to pay
> >         a royalty. But, like on JiffyDOS, I licensed the IP, and my contract
> >         asks for a royalty payment.
> > 
> >     > 
>     Jim
> 
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>     Jim Brain
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