A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima's creator make a new game EA can't stop
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Looking ahead: Two quiet moves – one from EA, one from Ultima's creator – could end up reshaping what the series looks like in the years ahead. Electronic Arts recently filed new trademarks tied to Ultima, the long-running RPG series it acquired in 1992 and has mostly left dormant since. The filings don't point to a specific project, but they do show EA is still actively protecting the Ultima name. Around the same time, Ultima creator Richard Garriott has been working to a different kind of schedule, one set by the quirks of US copyright law.
Garriott says he has tried several times over the years to bring Ultima back with EA's help, but each effort stalledbefore anything concrete happened. "Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a...
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