Castlevania Resurrection news..

[Anthony817]

TECHNICALLY Possession is 9/10 of the law. They can sell the disc as they see fit. The composer has no rights to anything. The person can sell the object they legally own, which is the disc.

That dude is fucking stupid for filing a claim on this. Sure maybe he had good intentions, but how the hell are you gonna claim copyright on a physical disc that is not pirated? That is as dumb as saying somebody who tries to sell a one of a kind concept car they legally own is going to get sued for copyright by the guy who designed the interior gauge cluster! Get real!

Now watch, this guy is gonna get so scared he won't be releasing it! What a monumental idiot for claiming copyright on this! If he truly cared about it getting released he would have just shut his mouth and let it happen. Sounds like he is just sour over the fact that he got no money from it.

[cloofoofoo]

TECHNICALLY Possession is 9/10 of the law. They can sell the disc as they see fit. The composer has no rights to anything. The person can sell the object they legally own, which is the disc.

That dude is fucking stupid for filing a claim on this. Sure maybe he had good intentions, but how the hell are you gonna claim copyright on a physical disc that is not pirated? That is as dumb as saying somebody who tries to sell a one of a kind concept car they legally own is going to get sued for copyright by the guy who designed the interior gauge cluster! Get real!

Now watch, this guy is gonna get so scared he won't be releasing it! What a monumental idiot for claiming copyright on this! If he truly cared about it getting released he would have just shut his mouth and let it happen. Sounds like he is just sour over the fact that he got no money from it.

Well technically he has a point. It's stolen. If Konami wanted to they could have exercised the right to reclaim it IAM sure. It would not be the first time a game development would reclaim a prototype.

[Anthony817]

Well it would be interesting to see how exactly the guy acquired this stuff. If he bought it from Konami liquidating all their old assets and auctioning them off then would that not be still a legal way he had gotten it? If that is not the case sure then it can be deemed so. But if he legally bought this from some liquidated assets it doesn't sound right.

[Greg2600]

Would love to play this, and this threat of a lawsuit is quite surprising.

[Anthony817]

Wow, he tried to ask the seller for 20% of the profits of the disc! What an asshole!

Watch the full video for more details.



Read some of the comments, the guy even commented on this video.

[Cesarm]

The 20% he asked, I believe it was just to scare the guy.

Nevertheless i believe his intentions where good.

There's some good points here, the Providence of the disk is the key, how did he get it?

Konami doesn't sell prototypes, likely, the disk belong to one of the original team members, and he had no right to sell it , so this is still konami property.

[Ro Magnus Larsson]

1- If the GDRom Disc owner does not have a real identity, nobody can sue an annonimous user
2-He should maintein his identity annonimus and could sell or reunite money to release the game in the web.
3- Konami or SEGA do not have one reason to sue a physic person who owns a piece of a +20 years old and forgiven console by them, why appears now? My answer is one: Money! what is difference if he releases or not the game for the companies or composers, producers 20 years later?

[bingobongo]

The legality issue is a bit strange really.

If (for example) the current owner says he simply bought it at a thrift store twenty years ago and can't remember which one? Then at that point it would be down to Konami to prove he didn't - which I think might well be impossible now. Innocent until proven guilty, right?

In order for Konami to win any court case they (Konami) would have to prove how it ended up with the current owner - and it would have to be a very convincing argument. If there's no real chain of custody then it's all just hearsay and you can't take someone to court over something so trivial.

I just hope (even though the video is really enough for me) that the rest of the community do get to see a rip released for people to dig into and who knows? Maybe even customise, modify?

[sgmx]

Frankly who thinks that Konami will care about it and sue someone for a game they have canned.
The company doesn’t even develop games nowadays (besides PES), this is just ridiculous.

[Greg2600]

Watched that video. So the seller's public pronouncement of releasing the dump was only after the composer went after him? Furthermore, I doubt he was deterred by the threat of litigation, more likely he figured (rightly) that eBay would just strike down the sale. He can easily sell that disc privately. This composer, never having dealt with the prototype world, clearly doesn't quite "get it." Proto's are bought and sold constantly and publishers do not care, it is never worth their time to seek penalty on those individuals.