US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million 410
inKubus writes "Tulip Computers International BV -- which has held the rights to Commodore since 1997 -- said Thursday it will sell the once-mighty Commodore computer brand to U.S.-based Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc. for 24 million euros, or $33 million. A company spokesman said they would "take actions" against possible copyright infringements of the Commodore name in the United States as well as release a new MP3 player and rerelease classic games."
There goes (Score:4, Insightful)
Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)
So... (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, really, it's pretty much been empty promises since about 1992 from the Commodore/Amiga crowd, and the Commodore kicked the bucket.
oh goody (Score:5, Insightful)
Commodore is dead (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:It's dead, Jim. (Score:2, Insightful)
Going after infringers... (Score:2, Insightful)
True Value (Score:5, Insightful)
TRADEMARK, not copyright (Score:5, Insightful)
There are a couple of issues they might run into:
1) continuous use -- has the trademark been in continuous use over the years? They can't just abandon it and pick it back up
2) passing off - if no one else is "passing themselves off" as the Commodore computer company, they probably don't have an action.
overall, if their investment plan is litigation, i think they are in a craptacular situation
Re:There goes (Score:1, Insightful)
Sincerely,
Tucker Carlson
CNN
Re:After all... (Score:5, Insightful)
1>notice people making joysticks with built-in games that play commodore games
2>buy commodore name to sue those companies
3>...
4>profit!
Once that plan is complete maybe they will buy Amiga.
Knowing that something like this... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Oh cool. (Score:2, Insightful)
From an earlier interview I believe she only acted as a consultant to the company that actually produces the device, so she should be rather safe from that perspective. The company that produces the device plus anybody using that Commodore name for profit will be sued into oblivion.
Little Improvement In Video Games Since C64 Days (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:What's the point? I mean really? (Score:2, Insightful)
When Jobs came back to Apple, people were saying "New Macs? Kinda late for that don'tcha think?"
Not that that's going to happen here. They just want some trademarks to sue people over.
Though I'd love to see the Amiga updated and rereleased, a la the newer Macs. One can dream.
Re:uh? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Let Me Get This Straight... (Score:2, Insightful)
you know - the ones who destroyed commodore, but thanks for playing the anti-semite card.
Re:Commodore is dead (Score:5, Insightful)
The people most likely to care are those who *know* the situation, your hypothetical 30-year old Joe Sixpack might get nostalgic about his old C64 or Amiga, but realistically, C= is a company from the past and doesn't have that much cachet nowadays.
I don't think Commodore t-shirts will ever be fashionable in the way that Atari t-shirts became a couple of years back.
Actually, the one thing that pisses me off about the Atari 'resurrection' is the gratuitous changing of the logo. The original was an absolute design classic; either the fuji on its own, or with the fuji and 'ATARI' name underneath.
Hasbro did their own stupid variant when they owned it, now Infogrames have decided to alter the fuji itself (UGLY!), then stick it in the middle of the 'ATARI' name (where it loses impact, IMHO).
The best reason I can think of for doing this is some tosser of a design consultant justifying his fee. Scum.
Maybe It's for Cellphones (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe they want to make a C64 emulator for cellphones and sell/rent old C64 games to cellphone customers.