Re: OT: Old Computer Games (Was: Weekly Vocab #1.1.3 (repost #1))
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2006, 13:34 |
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-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
>Sent: Sep 14, 2006 12:09 AM
>You could always check an abandonware site. Their legality it a bit dubious,
>but if you have the original discs, I see no problem.
Copyright is only legally (and IMO morally) relevant as long as the copyright holder
choses to defend it. Most abandonware has usually been explicitly abandoned by
the copyright holder, or business changes have made the copyright holder cease
to exist without the copyright being transferred.
Paul
(why, yes, I am spamming, but it's a subject dear to my heart)