http://fortressat.com/ Sat, 18 May 2013 13:09:49 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2965#josc40615 Christian Petersen tactfully admits that they didn't try to contact Hamblen: " 'why didn't FFG contact Hamblin when you decided to remake Merchants of Venus?' We had no reason to suspect he was not aware of our work. In hindsight, obviously we should have, but our approvals and communication was through the entity which licensed us the game and TM. cP FFG" dragonstout Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:28:51 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2965#josc40579 These rights ought to be quite clear, because a contract ought to specify that when a game goes out of print (definition of that often includes "sold less than xx in yy period") then the rights revert to the designer. But companies often don't know what they have. When I came back into the hobby in 2004 it was partly because I heard that Multiman Pubishing had the rights to reprint Britannia. But Brit was licensed by Avalon Hill from Gibsons (UK) (note that the AH version is copyrighted in my name, not AH's). My contract with Gibsons was that when it went out of print, rights reverted to me. I never saw Gibson's contract with AH of course, but you can't sell rights you don't have. So if Multiman had reprinted the game, they would have been in violation of contract. In other words, Hasbro didn't have a clue what they had, and transferred a right to MMP that they did not have. I wonder if something like this is happening with MoV. lewpuls Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:01:02 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2965#josc40560 Two weeks ago, on the 4th December, I posted this [url=http://fortressat.com/index.php/news-newsflashes/2908-stronghold-games-announces-reprint-of-merchant-of-venus] in the original article here[/url]... Notahandle Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:30:14 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2965#josc40547 It sounds like Stronghold is carefully directing their fire. S. Sagrilarus Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:08:23 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2965#josc40544 Sounds like Stronghold is trying to settle with Hasbro and FFG is going forward with publishing MoV. ubarose Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:52:44 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2965#josc40542 Huh. Was wondering where this had got up to. One of the online sites I buy from has the FFG version up for pre-order, so I kinda figured Stronghold had relented. Guess not. Death and Taxis Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:49:03 +0100