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http://www.pcformat.co.uk/newsread.asp?story_id=275
Elite Web site not closed by Braben

Ok, forget any story you
might have thought you
saw on this site about
David Braben, co-creator of
80's gaming milestone
Elite, closing any Elite
Web site created by Ian
Bell, the other creator of
Elite. Mr Braben contacted
us to put his side of the
story, and jolly nice about it he was too.

There was an Ian Bell Elite site on CIX, it was closed,
but that's as far as it goes.

For a start, the 'Ian Bell' running the site is not
necessarily Ian Bell, co-creator of Elite. He may well be
one of the imposter Ian Bells running around the
Internet. There's no way of knowing because he's not
talking to anyone. That's precisely the problem.

Far from depriving us all of Elite, David Braben wants to
make available the various incarnations of Elite on his
own Frontier site. He tried to get in contact with the
creator of the CIX Elite site to sort out the thorny issue
of rights, but 'Ian Bell' refused to respond, either to
Braben's enquiries or to those of Mark Wilson, IT
Director of CIX.

It was thus exasperation over Ian Bell's lack of
response, rather than any threatened legal action by
Braben, which led CIX to finally withdraw access to the
Elite site. 

David Braben has even offered retrospective permission
for the site, on the condition that Ian Bell does the
same for him. Assuming that Bell even holds any rights
on Elite. Oh, it's all very confusing.