Ich habe mir mal die Mühe gemacht, die Agentur anzuschreiben, die die wirtschaftlichen Interessen von Chris Sawyer vertritt. Dabei habe ich gezielt nach den Copyrights für Locomotion gefragt. Meine Anfrage und deren Antwort füge ich hier mal an. Ich war so frei, die dedizierten Kontaktdaten und den Namen des Schreibers zu entfernen. Falls jemand eine qualifizierte Übersetzung liefern möchte, darf derjenige dies gerne tun. Ich lese aus dem Kontext eine leichte Kritik an Chris Sawyer und Atari heraus. Vielleicht interpretiere ich das aber auch falsch. 
> Hello!
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> I'm really sure you'll get questions like this every day. Sorry for that.
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> I'm a fan of the Chris Sawyer Games. But much more of the Patches and clones of his games as Transport Tycoon deLuxe Patch and Open TransportTycoon.
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> His last Game "Locomotion" seems to be incomplete in many manners.
> But that's not your business.
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> A lot of Mods are available to make it a bit more colorized and a bit more complete. Fans are working on the Graphics all days. At any time you reach a border, where no more changes can be made, because the game core (.EXE) cannot be touched.
> So the main question is: Who has the Copyright of the game? Who can or who must to be asked for permissions to work with the code itself?
Chris Sawyer owns all rights. Exclusive rights for the PC are currently
held by Atari. He has not given anyone permission to make any patches or
clones, and we try to discourage them, though the net and the ethos of
modding makes it impossible practically to stop them.
Sad to say Atari did not make the most of its licence in LOCOMOTION.
This does not mean that new commercial versions are not possible however.
Regards
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