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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6089076" data-attributes="member: 13107">Some questions:If I went into bankruptcy, and had unreleased IP, could I retain ownership of that?  Would it matter if the material was an unreleased track, or, say, a private diary?For IP such as 3.5E, or Alternity, or unreleased tracks, or a private diary, what seems to be a key difference is the presence of externalities which contribute to the value of the IP and which depend on the availability of the IP.If I've bought an author's books, I don't lose value if that author doesn't ever publish a diary.  (Although, per my next case, I would lose value if I bought books one and two of a trilogy and the author wrote but chose not to publish book three.  It might be incomplete, or it might be complete and the author just decided not to publish it.)If I've bought a game which requires that players independently purchase IP material of the game, then the publisher ceasing to publish that game seems to harm my prior purchaser of the game.  While there is no explicit contract to continue making the product available, is there, or should there be, an implicit "social contract" to keep it available?  (Allowing for a surcharge for the effort?)Thx!TomB</blockquote>