Re: Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds?

["Chris Madsen" cmadsen@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, that's the one, but the contact info is quite out of date. Try
www.lawontheweb.com . I don't think there is an office as such in Baltimore
any more -- I think he does it out of his house, which is in some tony
neighborhood.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Bauman" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds?


> At 05:34 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Chris Madsen wrote:
> >
> >TTG declared bankruptcy. The source code is still owned by Kenny Frank.
He
> >sold the desktop product as-is to a group based in Texas that is planning
a
> >release of Wealth Transfer Planning, which is SmartWords with a custom
> >module to do estate planning laid over. You can still use SW as you would
> >use Xywrite, but the code is over 2 years old at this point, and still 16
> >bit. The group in Texas does not plan to move to 32-bit; in fact, they
plan
> >to eventually move away from SW entirely. Their interest is in the estate
> >planning stuff.
>
> Is this him? This is the only lawyer named K Frank in Maryland listed on
> Findlaw:
>
> Kenneth Broh Frank
> Firm: Technology Group, Inc.
> Address: 38 S. Charles St., Ste. 2200
> Baltimore, MD 21201
> Phone: (410) 576-2040
> Fax: (420) 576-1968
> E-mail:
> Web site: http://www.tgrp.com
>
> (The web site is actually just an ISP's page)
>
> Norman
>
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