[thombat]

Unless they signed bizarrely horrible contracts at least some of the staff will be getting residuals. By way of imperfect comparison, Ringo Starr's annual income of $20m doesn't come from doing the Xmas Special of "Thomas the Tank Engine"

[leoc]

Apple Records is still legally a going concern, though. (Though again there's the complicated situation with his songwriting royalties etc.)

[eru]

And in the same sense, Zachtronics can cease to exist as a studio, but they can keep around some legal entity that collects the royalties and distributes them to former contributors.

[mysterydip]

If that's the case then it makes sense. From the sound of it I thought they were dissolving, but it makes more sense to just cease operations.

[eru]

I'm just speculating.

But it would make sense to call what they are doing 'dissolving the studio', even if some legal entity (either the same or a successor) stays around.