Release LemmingsSDL 0.9.7

[ekianjo]

Nothing, but technically Lemmings is not owned by Psygnosis since Psygnosis does not exist anymore. Just wanted to correct the statement, that's all. hence the "By the way".

 

[Pickle]

My question has been answered, there was never a legal release of the game assets to the open domain and are owned by some faction or another.

 

[White Demon]

What is the legality of this app? It appears that all the content was ripped from the original. Was the original released to open domain?

Lemmings was from DMA Design. DMA Design became Rockstar. Rockstar was integrated in Take II.


Lemmings was published by Psygnosis. Psygnosis was bought over by Sony.


Not sure whether the assets went to Sony or Take II in the end.

it would be Sony, since they have periodically re-released in on each iteration of Playstation & PSP over the years.

But as the previous poster mentioned, it would be easy for either of them to jump on such versions and ask for them to be withdrawn if they wanted. Much money has already been made on Lemmings, it's not sold anymore anywhere, there are no sequels planned either, so it's pretty much "abandonware" while it's not official.

If there's a lawyer around he can maybe provide perspective ?

Doesn't matter if they use the IP or not, it's still illegal to rip their IP and use it without their permission.


That is exactly the reason why the Spectrum version of Lemmings is not available on worldofspectrum.org, as Sony have denied its release.