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pokemon71096

Joined: 09 Mar 2010

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i have a question, mainly for rand, but for any cyan employee.
did you have to contact robyn to rerelease the stuff he made for myst/manhole/riven, or does it belong to cyan?

Malfhok

Joined: 02 Jul 2009

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I'm not a Cyan employee… But I believe when Robyn left, he signed over all of his work to Cyan.

Plus, the iPhone rerelease of Myst was in part beta tested by Robyn: http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2009/05/mobile-tinselmysting.html

So I'm pretty sure Cyan has his approval.

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LuigiHann

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The Myst and Riven soundtracks (including the relatively recent digital download versions) are released under Robyn's name, so it would seem that he has ownership over the music, and Cyan has some agreement with him regarding their use in rereleases of the game. If some third party (or you) wanted to use the music, I'd imagine they/you'd have to get permission from both Robyn and Cyan, but I'd go with Robyn first. The credit information displayed on Amazon.com for both the Myst and Riven soundtracks list the Label (usually the record company that "owns" the rights to the album) simply as Robyn Miller.

If you're just talking about game design and content, then yeah the company generally owns all of that.

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pokemon71096

Joined: 09 Mar 2010

Posts: 1185

well yeah according to tinselman he let some people use his music.
also, (i forget the rest)

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