[game_edu] Readings, Libraries & Copyright

[Andrew Armstrong]

Worry that our entire digital cultural heritage will be lost (apart from 
re-released material) for no good reason well before we're dead and 
we'll be poorer for it since no one will get to play some really great 
games.

Oh well!

Sorry, very cynical and pessimistic of me - being from the Game 
Preservation SIG, this is an intrinsic question that simply isn't 
answerable, or even worse, never asked. Answers if you have them on a 
postcard please! :)

I don't think honestly that by the letter of the law many places have 
enough copies of classic games they want to teach parts from (certainly 
not the emulator part - DMCA removes the right in America at least to 
make copies of something!) so I presume they either get special 
permission (I've seen cases of this), don't use game X, hint and look 
the other way, or just use the emulators anyway given the teachings of 
educational use in copyright law (varies from country to country, and 
don't quote me).

Andrew

Ian Schreiber wrote:

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