{"id":752,"date":"2006-12-04T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/752\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T15:07:33","slug":"obsolete-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/obsolete-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsolete Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For almost as long as the internet has been around, geeks and other enthusiasts have been using it to share and make archives of &#8220;copyrighted&#8221; material.  I put the word copyright in quotes there because a lot of the time the material so copyrighted is out of print or otherwise unavailable for the general public to use because of technology changes or other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Librarian of Congress announced several classes of material that would be exempt from DMCA under fair use policies for the next 3 years (at which point the exemption has to be renewed).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/1201\/docs\/2006_statement.html\" title=\"US Copyright Office 2006 DMCA Announcement\">Included was this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So did all those archives of game roms just get protection from prosecution for copyright infringement?  It certainly became harder to do so, in any case.  I also wonder how Nintendo&#8217;s efforts to collect various obsolete and OOP game makers to make such things downloadable for Wii will affect what classes of items are affected by this.  You certainly can&#8217;t buy a Commodore 64 any longer, but does the Wii&#8217;s existence make those games not a part of this group? As it reads, I&#8217;m thinking it doesn&#8217;t save them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost as long as the internet has been around, geeks and other enthusiasts have been using it to share and make archives of &#8220;copyrighted&#8221; material. I put the word copyright in quotes there because a lot of the time the material so copyrighted is out of print or otherwise unavailable for the general public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}