Originally posted by xav1r
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William Shatner owns the rights to the storyline of TekWar and any trade dress associated with the novels he wrote.
Even if you presume that the game was a differing deal from the Novel series, the rights if the publisher of the TV series was defunct, would devolve to the producers...Ron Goulart and...
Wait for it...
William Shatner.
Even if you presume that the producers were defunct and Shatner wasn't one of them, since he's doing a goodly portion of the cutscene acting, since he's the one doing the acting, it'd devolve to him, yet again.
You've got to be CAREFUL about your presumptions of who has rights involvement in these things. You can't make assumptions like what you just did- ever... If you do, you could be on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
Having said this, if we can revive the game with some improved stuff, he MIGHT be convinced to allow it to go- or maybe with a deal on proceeds of a commercially sold remix of the game. That, however, would be a bit of a stretch because while it was a better game than many Capstone came up with, it's still not a "great" game a' la GoG's stuff.
And BTW, Tekwar seems to be a pretty good game, probably better than witchaven. It had NPCs you could talk to, that wandered around. If you pointed your weapon at them they would go, dont shoot me, and if there were any cop NPCs around they'd draw their weapons and tell you to drop yours, GTA-style.
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