I don't have any information about the copyrights or licensing of the trademarks.Ĭolevision software copyrights were sold toĪnything not included would of possibly went to So my educated guess is they do not own the trademarks for this catalog or they are just odd. It does seem odd Coleco Holdings would claim trademark ownership for Coleco®, ColecoVision®, and ColecoVision® Flashback®, but not any of the games if they own the trademarks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners." "Coleco®, ColecoVision®, and ColecoVision® Flashback® are registered trademarks of Coleco Holdings LLC. This is from the Steam website for the ColecoVision Flashback after initial intro and the list of games: If the copyrighted property is not transferred when a public company dissolves than they are unenforceable. Copyrights always belong to someone unless they expire into or are released into public domain. And I said that there's no evidence that they are.
The discussion started when it was suggested that the games on the flashback are legit. If I wanted to pay money for legal access to these games I would expect something more than "Coleco and Coleco Vision are registered trademarks of Coleco Holdings LLC". And copyright owners for other games like Interphase whom I've heard are unresponsive. They are easy to get a hold of but then there is the copyright owner of the game code. I suppose that if I called Big Five Software and asked about Miner 2049er they would say: oh sure we licensed the trademarks and game concepts to RWB/Coleco.
It's true, a copyright owner has the right to remain anonymous but that doesn't make sense here. That's if the software copyrights were never transferred from old Coleco then the copyrights would be unenforceable. If that's not good enough for you, then so be it, but that's solely your own issue. Until then, they're the owners of it and that's who you deal with - like AtGames did - to be allowed legal access to them. If someone else has claims on said properties and games, it's up to that someone else to go after and/or challenge RWB. AtGames and other companies would not make deals with them if there wasn't a reasonable assurance that RWB had what they had. I'm sure they have something that legally shows ownership of the properties and games. We don't know the full path of ownership for these games after Coleco originally had them.
I'm saying that's who claims to have these properties. What other products were there that has software from their catalog? RWB hadn't claimed any copyright ownership there. Are you saying RWB claims ownership of the old Coleco software library? Who did they purchase it from? Įdit: Look at the Flashback packaging.
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