Post by Uesugi-dono on Aug 15, 2018 12:33:11 GMT
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So check out this article on the defense of ROMs. I guess Nintendo sued some people over Emulators and ROMs. I know why they did it; because they want you to pay 9.99 to play Battletoads or drop 300 dollars on a 'retro' system with a sparse 30 games on it. It's ridiculous. Not only are these games 30 + years old but most of us already have an emulator and ALL of these games. (I know I do.) That said if Nintendo would stop being rectal worms and put ALL of the NES games on the NES retro system I would actually SPEND the 300 bucks they're asking for the system! I won't do it for 30 games however.
The article brings up a great point: Copyright was supposed to balance the benefits to the creator and the public. But what’s happened since then has been the virtual death of “public domain” through slow copyright creep. 28 years became 42, then 56, then “life of the author plus 50 years,” then “life of the author plus 70 years.” If the work was “authored” by a corporation, US law currently protects it for 95 years. It’s a situation that the Internet Archive’s Jason Scott says is tantamount to “perpetual copyright.” It is not good law.
He's absolutely, unequivocally right. And due to this phenomena I say it is time for Copyright Law to die and get reformed. I support the defense of a CREATOR'S Right to control the properties they create, for a reasonable amount of time. I always felt 30 years was fair. After all this right belongs to the CREATOR not the Publisher. It is the Creator who should own the SOLE right to what happens with his/her creation and if you're not going to touch it for 30 years then it's fair to say this creation, now an item of CULTURE... belongs to that culture.
And in case I didn't get my point across let me remind you who occupied the lowest rung of society in Feudal Japan. Merchants. Why? Because they didn't make anything. Samurai made war. Peasants made food. Artisans made art. Merchants? Merchants fed off of the creations of others... like a parasite.
So check out this article on the defense of ROMs. I guess Nintendo sued some people over Emulators and ROMs. I know why they did it; because they want you to pay 9.99 to play Battletoads or drop 300 dollars on a 'retro' system with a sparse 30 games on it. It's ridiculous. Not only are these games 30 + years old but most of us already have an emulator and ALL of these games. (I know I do.) That said if Nintendo would stop being rectal worms and put ALL of the NES games on the NES retro system I would actually SPEND the 300 bucks they're asking for the system! I won't do it for 30 games however.
The article brings up a great point: Copyright was supposed to balance the benefits to the creator and the public. But what’s happened since then has been the virtual death of “public domain” through slow copyright creep. 28 years became 42, then 56, then “life of the author plus 50 years,” then “life of the author plus 70 years.” If the work was “authored” by a corporation, US law currently protects it for 95 years. It’s a situation that the Internet Archive’s Jason Scott says is tantamount to “perpetual copyright.” It is not good law.
He's absolutely, unequivocally right. And due to this phenomena I say it is time for Copyright Law to die and get reformed. I support the defense of a CREATOR'S Right to control the properties they create, for a reasonable amount of time. I always felt 30 years was fair. After all this right belongs to the CREATOR not the Publisher. It is the Creator who should own the SOLE right to what happens with his/her creation and if you're not going to touch it for 30 years then it's fair to say this creation, now an item of CULTURE... belongs to that culture.
And in case I didn't get my point across let me remind you who occupied the lowest rung of society in Feudal Japan. Merchants. Why? Because they didn't make anything. Samurai made war. Peasants made food. Artisans made art. Merchants? Merchants fed off of the creations of others... like a parasite.