For me this is the "business as usual" asshole move of GOG.
If there is no clear owner, and no one claiming right anymore, then it is abandonware that we can all profit of.
But now Gog will actually spend lot of effort to make the intellectual property alive and so killing abandonware that is their competition in the end.
When a game is still sold through their platform, it can't claimed to be abandoned as it is still in the market generating revenues.
And in the example they give with the PI it is even worse. You don't do this in the interest of the creator that needs to be rewarded for its game but some distant relative that had nothing to do with it...
If there is no clear owner, and no one claiming right anymore, then it is abandonware that we can all profit of.
But now Gog will actually spend lot of effort to make the intellectual property alive and so killing abandonware that is their competition in the end. When a game is still sold through their platform, it can't claimed to be abandoned as it is still in the market generating revenues.
And in the example they give with the PI it is even worse. You don't do this in the interest of the creator that needs to be rewarded for its game but some distant relative that had nothing to do with it...