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Originally Posted by .Cole.
I don't believe Sierra sold them the license. From what I gather, the copyright on it simply expired, so they were able to simply copyright it themselves, or something to that effect.
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I'd be very surprised if that was the case. With current copyright/trademark law, corporations can hold onto a copyright basically forever. My guess is that Activision/Blizzard (who now own Sierra) just decided they were never going to do another sports sim, so opted to get a few bucks by selling it.
Incidentally, back in my programming days, I worked on, I believe, the last three iterations of
FPS:FB. There are quite a few stories I could tell about that last version, which was a corporate cluster**** of monumental proportions, but I don't know if I'm still liable for the non-disclosure all of us were forced to sign in order to get our severance package. Let's just say the spirit of
Dilbert was alive and well at Sierra in those post-Ken & Roberta Williams days...