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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
Chris:
His argument is that StarROMs doesn't count because you can't transfer the license for ROMs purchased from StarROMs, so you can't sell a cabinet with StarROMs ROMs on it.
Fat_Trucker:
He also cited that it was similar to the situation with Napster but the two situations are very different.
Napster was dealing in properties that were widely and commercially available and the legal action was backed by the money and weight of the music industry and affected hundreds of interested artists/parties.
MAME deals with a niche market and doesn't support mainstream or commercially available properties and without it, it is arguable whether there would be a market for Ultracade to work in at all. There appears to be a single company (Ultracade)
JODY:
Does anyone else remember when Atari released the arcade games they ported to DOS into the public domain?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Chris on February 21, 2005, 02:52:33 pm ---His argument is that StarROMs doesn't count because you can't transfer the license for ROMs purchased from StarROMs, so you can't sell a cabinet with StarROMs ROMs on it.
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what people do then is register the buyers name tot he roms. That is legal.
Santoro:
--- Quote from: Chris on February 21, 2005, 02:52:33 pm ---His argument is that StarROMs doesn't count because you can't transfer the license for ROMs purchased from StarROMs, so you can't sell a cabinet with StarROMs ROMs on it.
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You can if you purchase the ROMS in advance in the buyer's name.