foley allegedly never got rights from namco to include pac man or galaga in his game packs. he also tried to register the mame trademark in his own name at one point. he even tried to charge royalties from artwork vendors, etc. foley contacted ebay and claimed that he was the registered trademark owner of mame and had legit auctions pulled. shutting down marquee sellers and artwork vendors to enforce a trademark on something he did not create? thats pretty low. motivation aside, he had no part in creating mame and no legal right to copyright it.
"G-Mode, Jaleco, SNK Playmore and Tecmo representatives have now publicly commented to Gamasutra, and are accusing Ultracade Technologies former owner David R. Foley of piracy. These parties are now claiming that Ultracade arcade game cabinets and game packs contained many titles that were never legitimately licensed for Ultracade.
All four companies released statements to Gamasutra indicating they had no records of ever licensing their game titles to Ultracade Technologies and its former owner David Russell Foley. These products include the original Ultracade coin-op arcade units and game packs." -gamesutra, excerpted
"According to Namco America president Kevin Hayes, "Ultracade is completely out of bounds in selling 'Pac-Man' or any other Namco titles for arcade use with their system. They have not licensed it from Namco or anyone else. Operators buying Namco titles from them should realize they are buying an unlicensed, illegal product and that Namco is taking appropriate action to protect its intellectual property from misuse / theft." -vending times, excerpted