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Nuvendil said:

Actually, I don't think they own the game, per se.  Rather, assuming publishing with games works as it does in other areas, they own all distribution and publication rights to the game.  That's how author's do it:  you sell portions of your rights, be it First North American Rights, Second North American Rights, Serial Rights, etc.  They could have just acquired all of that as a part of the deal for funding the game.

They funded the actual game's development, not just published it. They own all that you listed and the game code.