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| jennifer:
The art work, awsome to me as a girl.... more-so today in the interest of preservation. Restoring ,printing, dist.,of art is a expensive" hobby " profit margins should be realized, copyrights-be-%$#@!!! More people should learn how to take desent scans [@300dpi, please.] |
| wizkid32:
Getting rather off topic here... (And I started it! :banghead: ) |
| fallacy:
So I have a stupid question that I never been able to find an answer to. Where do you look to see what version of mame the rom Is compatible with? |
| 404:
To make a long story short, I have had the displeasure of knowing far too much about the United States DMCA laws and how they affect end users and the current quagmire of digital copyright laws in the United States. Older games such as these are in a sort of state of limbo that many would consider Abandonware. Most of these games from companies that are no longer around still do have valid copyrights unless the copyright holders have explicitly relinquished rights to the games. Nearly every game linked to on the official Mame website still have valid and retained copyrights. The authors and companies involved have merely offered the games free for personal, non commercial use only. Their rights to the games are still completely intact. The only proper way to get more games such as these into your hands legally would be to track down the original authors and/or copyright owners and plead your case for the Mame community to either push these out as freeware or publish their creative works under the public domain (relinquishing their copyrights). I haven't been around Mame that much but I'm surprised that I have yet to find a dedicated group of people not already attempting this. It's the same and at times even worse when it comes to artwork as companies are protected under derivative works clauses. Even if you happen to buy a custom pacman art set for your custom arcade, you or the artwork seller could be committing copyright infringement. |
| ed12:
--- Quote from: 404 on December 02, 2011, 09:22:47 pm ---To make a long story short, I have had the displeasure of knowing far too much about the United States DMCA laws and how they affect end users and the current quagmire of digital copyright laws in the United States. Older games such as these are in a sort of state of limbo that many would consider Abandonware. Most of these games from companies that are no longer around still do have valid copyrights unless the copyright holders have explicitly relinquished rights to the games. Nearly every game linked to on the official Mame website still have valid and retained copyrights. The authors and companies involved have merely offered the games free for personal, non commercial use only. Their rights to the games are still completely intact. The only proper way to get more games such as these into your hands legally would be to track down the original authors and/or copyright owners and plead your case for the Mame community to either push these out as freeware or publish their creative works under the public domain (relinquishing their copyrights). I haven't been around Mame that much but I'm surprised that I have yet to find a dedicated group of people not already attempting this. It's the same and at times even worse when it comes to artwork as companies are protected under derivative works clauses. Even if you happen to buy a custom pacman art set for your custom arcade, you or the artwork seller could be committing copyright infringement. --- End quote --- where i need to agree with u to an extent u must deal with it case by case for a few instance's for 1 right now i have the right's to gobal-pga,to edit and re-config the code to suit the newer need's >hard-ware< etc,because there code team is long gone there is no holder to bally/william's right's..>gary can claim what he want's he bought the stock olny<, pinball resourse on the other hand bought the complete right's to gottileb to my know sega/data-east are still wide open as such but again with the dmca u tred carefull ground ed |
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