Ultima's creator Richard Garriott is planning to win back the rights to his legendary RPG from EA with an 50-year-old copyright quirk
… So, if Garriott does take back the copyright, he won't be able to make a new 'Ultima' game, but he would be able to make a game very similar to Ultima. Garriott says "'Lord British's Ultima' will regain all the copyrights of my original work. …