As a human story, this is kind of tragic. I feel for the guy.
As a legal story, it’s fascinating, and I’d love to see it go to court, for no other reason than to
There’s some passages in there that could be understood as implied consent — them using the text after the author explicitly tells Carl that copyright assignment is off the table implies Mojang accepts that condition. The author’s failure to respond to the contract in a timely manner once it was sent probably also implies consent, but maybe not?
Then there’s the matter of jurisdiction, as you have a Swedish company dealing with an Irishman (probably irrelevant) living in Germany (definitely relevant). Probably a fair few more complications in there that I failed to notice.
As a legal story, it’s fascinating, and I’d love to see it go to court, for no other reason than to
There’s some passages in there that could be understood as implied consent — them using the text after the author explicitly tells Carl that copyright assignment is off the table implies Mojang accepts that condition. The author’s failure to respond to the contract in a timely manner once it was sent probably also implies consent, but maybe not?
Then there’s the matter of jurisdiction, as you have a Swedish company dealing with an Irishman (probably irrelevant) living in Germany (definitely relevant). Probably a fair few more complications in there that I failed to notice.