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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:58:21 -0500
From: Support@Sega-Support.com
Subject: RE:Other [#173772]
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Dear Mr. Zumwalt,

Thank you for e-mailing Sega Technical Support.
Please feel free to send a addressing your specific concerns to our 
corporate office using the following information:

Sega of America, Inc.
Attention: Legal Department
650 Townsend Street, Suite 650
San Francisco, CA 94103-4908

At this time, Sega no longer recognizes the GiriGiri emulator.
The GiriGiri team author Shinya Miyamoto is the original Copyright holder of 2001.
After he left the project and Sega took over, the emulator was short lived.
Sega took over the copyrights up to 2003 and never renewed them after the
theft of the unlock code to the commercial release and the project was canned.

Sega does not have any future plans for GiriGiri at this time,
and as you point out, the recent take over of Sega, will not likely even
consider emulation, as Sammy will be focusing on arcade systems.

Sega has never supported outside development, and never likely will.
All Sega systems and Games remain protected.

Sincerely,

-Sandi
Sega of America Technical Support


--Original Message--
Email: TheSnail@xxx.xxx
AreaCode: 555
: 8675309
EmaiSubject: Other
EmailContent: I am an emulator developer.

I am interested in the conditions of the legal rights (if any) of your now 
ceased GiriGiri program.
Between it being a dropped commercial product, and Sammy taking over, and a complete lack of any reference on any of Sega's sites... well, you get where I'm going.
If rights are no longer being claimed, can you tell me of any further 
resources that could help in the programs development?
If rights are to be held, can you please send me the full details.

Thank you.
submitTime: Mon Jul 05 2004 11:03:01 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight )