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ROM copyright exemptions!

  • 04-11-2003 6:42pm
    #1
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    In response to a filing by Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive, Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons, and others, the Librarian of Congress granted exemptions from copyright protection measures in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to obsolete videogames. The exemption applies to games that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, and it determines a format obsolete "if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."

    According to the original filing, the exemption was proposed in order to migrate degraded and obsolete works to modern storage systems, and enable "archiving, future scholarship, and commentary." On October 28, 2003, the Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, announced the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The four classes of works exempted are:

    **about ROMS**(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.

    From http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

    Obviously doesnt affect us but interesting all the same


Comments

  • #2
    DiscoStu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    just means you wont have your ass dmca-ed the minute you commit a thought crime of deciding to dump a rom or create an emulator of an "obsolete" system. distribute em and your ass will still end up the play thing of bubba who decided that he wanted to watch is dvds on linux :roleyes:


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