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Re:Activision forced Al Lowe to cancel his Leisure Suit Larr... by MrMember on Saturday December 15, 2018 @03:44PM (#18690254)
In this instance Activision doesn't even know if they own the copyright to anything in the auction. They think they might and forced him to take it down just in case.
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Re:Activision forced Al Lowe to cancel his Leisure Suit Larr... by phendrenad2 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:38AM (#18692418)
Not quite. There could be "shared code", in which case the publisher has...

and here you're expecting me to say "every right". But I won't.

Because what the publisher has, is in fact, an obligation.

You see, if you think someone is infringing on your copyright, and you ignore it, you open yourself up to more egregious infirngement by others. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but that's my understanding of the situation.

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