January 6, 2023 07:28 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/23542539/minecraft-end-poem-julian-gough-microsoft-mojang-no-contract-public-domain
Microsoft doesnt own the rights to Minecrafts ending no one does, its author claims
There is no question who wrote the poem at the end of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. Julian Gough is the one who gave the game’s unseen gods their voice, beautifully telling the player how the universe loves them — and how the player is the universe, dreaming of itself.
We know it is Julian because he put his name in the poem, and because game studio Mojang put his name in the credits, and because Mojang founder Markus “Notch” Persson personally and very publicly recruited him for the task. What we did not suspect — not till we read Gough’s new Twitter thread and an epic 10,000-word blog post that is well worth a full read — is that Microsoft may not actually own the rights to the game’s ending.
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/23542539/minecraft-end-poem-julian-gough-microsoft-mojang-no-contract-public-domain
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