Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months agoI would be all in favor of “Use it or lose it” rights to Digital Distribution… Don’t offer a reasonable way to access a product? Can’t bitch when archive.org gives it away for nothing.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 months ago
There is an expiration date for IP. But I have little idea what type it goes under.
I just assume the reason old, barely functional games get the odd update every once in a blue moon is to “refresh” that expiration date.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 months ago
Copyright is not "use it or lose it", but as it is, it is unworkable for digital media. Computer hardware doesn't last a century and with no other measures being taken to preserve that content, it's effectively doomed by the law. It also doesn't reflect a world where average people make edits of copyrighted content as a means of expression without seeing any problem with that.