I know that Nintendo has gone after a lot of website offering NES roms because they want to sell them in their "classics" marketplace. Games like Pac-Man are still sold under licenses. The owners of these could probably file suit and maybe get them taken down, but the majority of the games are real-deal "abandonware". it's some sort of legal limbo because of the stupid copyright system in place. I don't think it's completely legit or illegal. And particularly when digital media is easy to produce en masse, there is no reason to suppress the access to it by hoarding it.Īnd then, Bally Midway offered a few of these games online through the Macromedia Shockwave (Flash) website about 14 years ago, so as far as those games are concerned, like VPM, maybe Macromedia bought the rights to those games and sold the rights? I don't know. That is consistent to the long standing principle, that Patents and Copyrights exist to protect the rights of the creator to serve The People, but not to neglect the product or deny the product to The People. I read somewhere that the archive received notice from the USPO (US Patent Office) that software that is no longer manufactured or maintained ("abandonware")
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