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Old 05-09-2012, 10:20 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Burns11 View Post
It's not a gray area at all, it's very much black and white: unless the copyright holder relinquishes those rights it's 100% illegal.
Gray areas do exist when there is no copyright holder anymore. Publishing rights can end up in a legal limbo. Sometimes a company goes under and the rights don't go anywhere. Sometimes a company gets taken over or split up and the lawyers forget to specify where the rights to a particular title go, making them end up untouchable by anyone.
Still illegal? Probably. But there's something to be said for being glad someone is keeping these things out there.
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