How much Van Buren material is still missing?

Anyone know if it's illegal for them to release it? From what I remember the design docs that got leaked way back when were technically still under copyright because Interplay existed at the time, but is that still an issue? Would Bethesda be able to DMCA posting the document online?
Dependent on laws and the contracts between the employees who worked on the documents and Interplay and whatever was involved with Bethesda and Interplay's exchange as well. But I'd imagine it heavily depends on how whichever party with the rights to those documents feels about their release, I'd imagine at this point between it being over 20 years and being an incomplete project that Interplay doesn't own and Bethesda has taken the franchise in their own direction that whoever is in charge of it probably doesn't care too much in both directions. I doubt they care enough to release the documents officially and I doubt they care enough to hunt down anyone leaking those documents and pursue legal action.

Interplay is still around though, they just haven't really released anything new. I think they've just focused on re-releases (that they still own of course). The last thing I think they released was Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance a few years ago and they used the Black Isle name as developers of the re-release. Probably nearly no one actually working there and rather just a few people or maybe just the owner signing papers and collecting money from digital sales at this point.
 
Anyone know if it's illegal for them to release it? From what I remember the design docs that got leaked way back when were technically still under copyright because Interplay existed at the time, but is that still an issue? Would Bethesda be able to DMCA posting the document online?
Thank god for mysterious 4chan leaks.

Also yeah if that finally emerged I repeat what I said. If Spaceworld 1997 demo can leak and the Red/Green BETA sprites can leak and the Sailor Mouth audio can leak, all the assets that existed for Van Buren and code can leak
 
Thank god for mysterious 4chan leaks.

Also yeah if that finally emerged I repeat what I said. If Spaceworld 1997 demo can leak and the Red/Green BETA sprites can leak and the Sailor Mouth audio can leak, all the assets that existed for Van Buren and code can leak
It just takes an active employee who feels safe enough to leak what they have access to or a former one who held onto copies of files they were supposed to erase and not have any access to. Like when Tim Cain mentions that he was told he was not to have any source code of Fallout after he left Interplay, years later they called asking him if he had a copy of the source code and he followed their instructions and did not have it. Luckily, someone else had their own copy of the source code even though they weren't supposed to.
 
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