Hyperion and Amiga reach legal ceasefire

via the Hyperion Facebook account...

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@eliyahu

Sign of hope

@eliyahu

well that’s something at least in the right direction

@eliyahu
Many thanks for the info, in cooperation with my attorney i'm preparing a cease and desist order to stop Hyperion selling pirate copies of my software.

@joerg
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Aren't they stop it long ago ? As far as i know as betatester, all (i think all?) your software were removed from amigaos4 releases and updates. At least i know for sure SFS and related files, partitionwizard, amidvd and some others. Or you mean some other ones ?

@joerg

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That, or possibly some other specialist.

Statement from Cloanto/Amiga on Twitter:

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I'm assuming that OS3 updates was the main point of contention, but it would have been nice to hear a positive statement about OS4.

@kas1e

newlib, sfs2

@thread

Absolutely no idea if it's accurate, but Amiga Documents just posted the following on Twitter:

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Take it for what it's worth. I haven't found the news elsewhere, so post if you find an actual news release or something, please.

-- eliyahu

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-20 ... 60-EN.html

12.Jul.2026



Update on the Legal Dispute Between Hyperion and Amiga
At the end of March, Hyperion and the Amiga Corporation jointly announced that they had resumed negotiations toward an out-of-court settlement. On April 30, the Amiga Corporation filed a motion (PDF) in the case Hyperion Entertainment CVBA v. Itec, LLC et al. to dismiss the case. A "dismissal without prejudice" - that is, with the option for all parties to file a new lawsuit regarding the same matter at a later date. The reason for the motion: the two parties had already begun negotiations toward an out-of-court settlement.

The main points of the motion:

Amiga's attorney is filing the motion on behalf of both parties. Hyperion, which for years had trouble securing legal representation, has now decided not to hire any new attorneys. Hyperion's new director, Timothy de Groote, has given his consent (PDF) and simply wishes to receive copies of the documents.
Attached to the motion is an Agreement to Facilitate Settlement (PDF) signed by both parties two days earlier. In this agreement, Hyperion acknowledges that, under the terms of the 2009 settlement agreement, Amiga is now Hyperion’s new licensor and has the same rights as its predecessor Amiga, Inc. - for example, with regard to the enforcement of copyright violations.
While Hyperion had originally attempted to register various trademarks on its own ("AmigaOne," "AmigaOS," "Workbench"), the agreement acknowledges that the Amiga Corporation is the rightful owner of all Amiga trademarks.
Should the settlement negotiations fail and the legal dispute resume, Amiga Corporation would be Hyperion's sole point of contact—Hyperion had originally attempted to drag all of the various shell companies from the McEwen era (Amino, Amiga Inc., Itec) into the legal dispute.

In their "Agreement to Facilitate Settlement", Amiga and Hyperion have set June 30 as the deadline. If no agreement is reached by that date, both parties have the right to resume court proceedings - albeit under the terms modified by the preliminary agreement as described above.

Right at the start of the new month - that is, after the deadline mentioned above had passed - Hyperion has once again discontinued digital distribution of AmigaOS 3.2. The relevant entry has disappeared from the official website; if you look for the corresponding link in the archive.org copy from May, you’ll be taken to a blank page on 2checkout.com. It is currently unclear whether this action indicates that the settlement negotiations have failed or is part of an out-of-court settlement that has actually been reached.

Editor's note: Mike Battilana declined to comment to amiga-news.de on the current status of the negotiations, which, in our view, makes it quite unlikely that an agreement has already been reached. (cg)

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@eliyahu

currently not confirmed

if becoming official we will see what it means

@eliyahu

Wow the war 'maybe' finally over