¡¡¡yay!!!
2,562 Aug 12, 2011 5:01 am
Re: Makeup and Vanity Set - Never Let Go [Soundmachine 2011] (7 replies, posted in Releases)
Sweet, love the bass on this.
2,563 Aug 11, 2011 5:13 pm
Re: Wizwars - Welcome To Thrash City (limited streaming preview) (22 replies, posted in Releases)
herr_prof wrote:
this is fucking isane. I thought I was a fan before.. but man!!! Amazing!!
Everybody needs to bug the shit out of Wizzy to include the live album of this stuff as bonus downloadable content if you buy the CD!
2,564 Aug 10, 2011 9:49 pm
Re: Wizwars - Welcome To Thrash City (limited streaming preview) (22 replies, posted in Releases)
Fuck. Yes. Bitches.
2,565 Aug 9, 2011 5:42 pm
Re: Buying rights to an image from a defunct company (legalese needed) (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
chunter wrote:
Two things I can add, not counting the disclaimers of "I am not a lawyer" and "I really only know how it works in USA,"
It is correct that defunct companies often have their IPs auctioned when they are dissolved if they are dissolved by a judge in bankruptcy court. If this is the case, you may have a hard time getting rights to the picture. However, if you make your own "cover" of the picture and use it as a trademark, you may, because if it has not been used in your territory to market a service such as yours, the trademark is abandoned and is yours to assume if you want.
Repeating, not a lawyer, US only.
Hmmmm... well one thing I thought about doing was getting a graphics dump of the image from my Amiga and converting that to a usable form... I don't know if that's any more or less "infringe-y" than just scanning the box art tho.
2,566 Aug 9, 2011 3:42 pm
Re: Buying rights to an image from a defunct company (legalese needed) (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Jellica wrote:
i just wrote a responce and then my browser fucking crashed.
they went under the name of MichTron in the US for some products.
they were taken over by hisoft in 93.
just a quick hunt on google if that helps - cant be arsed to find the links again : P
EAB might be more help with amiga stuff?
Thanks for that. I'll gather up those links as well and put together a good post for EAB... if I'm lucky somebody that worked on the product might actually be on there (good call).
2,567 Aug 9, 2011 3:22 pm
Re: Buying rights to an image from a defunct company (legalese needed) (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
µB wrote:
Look for a company number
You may still find it in the register:
http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
(click the WebCheck link)
Interesting! I got this result (they're listed as dissolved since 1996)
2,568 Aug 9, 2011 3:18 pm
Re: Buying rights to an image from a defunct company (legalese needed) (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
RG wrote:
Anyone cool enough to design that skull is cool enough to let you use it 20 years after the fact.
That's what I would hope. 
And I'm kinda sorta using it already: http://datathrash.com
2,569 Aug 9, 2011 3:02 pm
Re: Buying rights to an image from a defunct company (legalese needed) (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Thanks uB. I've got the Amiga version of this sampler and have been going through all the documentation carefully. So far the only credit at all is "copyright Microdeal Ltd. 1991" 
2,570 Aug 9, 2011 2:44 pm
Topic: Buying rights to an image from a defunct company (legalese needed) (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
My Facebook account wrote:
I very seriously would like to purchase the rights to the skull image used in the packaging and software splash screen for Microdeal's Stereo Master sampler. Of course the company is long out of business. Does anyone have some legal type knowledge that could help me with a starting point? Even feasible?
What it says up there but also I started thinking about buying images like this the way one would buy any other type of art. The copyright/trademark stuff makes it difficult but I know there are people on here that work in various electronic entertainment industries. Any idea how this might be handled?
2,571 Aug 8, 2011 11:35 pm
Re: Mods I've done so far... (7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
"SO FAR" 
2,572 Aug 8, 2011 9:55 pm
Re: Mods I've done so far... (7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
The Powers That Be wrote:
This thread is now about your sexual conquests over moderators of this site.
2,573 Aug 8, 2011 6:37 pm
Re: Post Your Facebook Pages For The Liking! (184 replies, posted in General Discussion)
http://www.facebook.com/Datathrash.01
For the friending, I guess.
2,574 Aug 8, 2011 5:10 am
Re: any ANSI art requests? (8 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Ah man! I'd love an alternate version of my blog/label logo if you've got time. It's the top banner here:
Black, white, and orange (FF6600 if you can). 8)
Email is: holder dot arnie at gmail dot com
EDIT: without the bandcamp.com logo obviously 
2,575 Aug 6, 2011 6:01 am
Re: I'm leaving (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
C'mon you can do better than that. My drunken posts are way embarrassing. You're weak.
2,576 Aug 6, 2011 2:58 am
Re: I'm leaving (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The Rules wrote:
Joke threads must now be funnier or contain drunken and embarrassing confessions.