Date   : Sun, 17 May 2009 23:57:50 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Copyright

2009/5/17 Darren Grant <darren.grant@...>:

> Odly enough that company number is now known as
> CABOT 2 LIMITED

... which appears to be something to do with Morgan Stanley finance.

The Element 14 website also seems to be something relating to Farnell
components.

The Sinclair community has a statement from Amstrad to the effect that
the ROM remains their copyright but is allowed for use in non-profit
efforts such as emulators.

The World of Spectrum website operates on the basis that they publish
copyrighted materials until someone notifies them to remove them, as
in the case of Codemasters and Ultimate titles. There have been many
cases of copyright holders and authors writing in to specifically
allow distribution, in some cases expressing surprise that anyone
nowadays is even remotely bothered about such old stuff.

-- 
Alex Taylor