The U.S. Copyright Office denied an exemption from the DMCA to allow gaming historians to access out-of-print games they can’t legally get.

“Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
    13•2 months ago

    Does this mean my library isn’t allowed to have games you can check out anymore? It’s been doing that (and other things that aren’t books) for at least a decade now with donated items.

    • @yamaniiEnglish
      10•2 months ago

      This is more about the online one you can do with books and movies, they wanted to expand it to retro games and ESA fought tooth and nail to deny it.