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Even if it was so, I get the picture that "abondonware" isn't a real legal thing.
Because:
Copyright law states that a copyright lasts for the life of the holder plus fifty years after his\her death, or until the holder specifically states that it isn't copyright anymore.
Jazz 2 says: © 1998 Epic Megagames
Epic is still around. Even if it died say...tomorrow, we would still need to wait fifty years.
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With our extreme gelatinous apology,
We beg to inform your Imperial Majesty,
Unto whom be dominion and power and glory,
There still remains that strange precipitate
Which has the quality to resist
Our oldest and most trusted catalyst.
It is a substance we cannot cremate
By temperatures known to our Laboratory.
~ E.J. Pratt
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