Ultima's Creator Richard Garriott Is Planning to Win Back the Rights to His Legendary RPG From EA with an 50-Year-Old Copyright Quirk
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Ultima developer Richard Garriott (also known as Lord British) pursues a plan to regain the rights to his legendary role-playing series from the current owner EA. The highlight? A rather obscure determination of copyright from the time about 50 years ago. More
Ultima's creator Richard Garriott is planning to win back the rights to his legendary RPG from EA with an 50-year-old copyright quirk
Ultima designer Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British) has a plan to claim back the rights to his legendary RPG series from current owner EA. The trick to doing so? A rather obscure bit of copyright law from around 50 years ago.
Lord British May Bypass EA To Revive Legendary Ultima Franchise In 2027
Remember Ultima? Of course you do. (And yes, I'm that Unc.) So anyway, after decades locked in copyright hell, a unique loophole in US law may allow game designer Richard Garriott to reclaim the rights to the Ultima series, the groundbreaking RPG he sold to Electronic Arts almost 35 years ago. But there are caveats. Garriott, famously known
"Finally, The Time Has Come" - Richard Garriott Is Reclaiming The Rights To Ultima
"What it will become is the next challenge".With origins that go as far back as 1981, Richard Garriott's Ultima series is one of the most famous in the world of RPGs – which makes the fact that we haven't had a proper, mainline game since 1999 all the more puzzling.The name is currently owned by Electronic Arts, thanks to the fact that it acquired Garriott's Origin Systems back in 1992. However, it seems that the legendary game designer and astr…
Richard Garriott wants to reclaim his role-playing cult series Ultima in 2027 with a legal trick from Publisher EA. However, while he could get code and concept, the valuable brand name itself would continue to remain with the old rights owner. (Continue reading)
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