The ESA says its members won't support the one form of game preservation that might actually work
It's pretty incredible that the ESA's stance is that they won't support copyright reform to help libraries make out-of-print games more accessible to researchers under *any* circumstances
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The Entertainment Software Association, the big trade organization for the video game industry in the US, says it’s fully opposed to a proposed copyright exemption that would allow gaming scholars to access online libraries of preserved games.
Preservationists have been arguing for an exemption like this for some time, and last week they presented their arguments to the US Copyright Office. As the Video Game History Foundationput it, …
