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0 pointszimpenfish3y ago0 comments

> Nope this guy agreed to it in email.

Can you quote the bit of the article which says that? All I can see is that he said "ok, what's your offer?", Carl returned with "€20k", and "in all the confusion someone sent me the money, even though we still didn’t have a contract worked out" - no contract, no license.

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microsoftdoes3y ago· 4 in thread

“and so I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was.”

Edit: I’m rate limited, but Microsoft doesn’t need a transfer. They bought the entire company. Just like you buying some shares on the stock exchange, except they bought all of the shares in a private transaction. Had they done an asset purchase instead, your point might be valid.

zimpenfishOP3y ago

Which is an implied contract, yes. Which a court would probably find that Mojang have an implied license to use the poem, yes.

But the terms of that license are unknown - a court may well decide that it did not apply to Microsoft since he didn't sign that contract. And it also means that he did not assign copyright to Mojang or Microsoft which removes that avenue of them claiming they can use it for free.

doodlesdev3y ago

Ready his comment again. It does not matter because Mojang still exists, it's just a Microsoft-owned company now. The contract and everything else related to the game is still property of Mojang, nothing has been transferred.

jcfhchcjxhx3y ago

nice try mr Microsoft lawyer.

he smartly follows the line you quoted out of context with "and even that they didn't deliver" or something.

so, no contract, an email agreement which was never fullfilled.

man, be happy this guys is a spineless hippie or you would be working overtime and still paying a deal.

microsoftdoes3y ago

What? They paid him exactly what he agreed to. Nothing in the story suggests otherwise.

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