8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
12:47 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Turnbull [mailto:pete@dunnington.u-net.com]
Sent: 07 December 2003 21:51
To: witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk; General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Space Invaders returning to arcades...
On Dec 7, 19:29, Witchy wrote:
Indeed, but when the means for playing early arcade games is readily
available then who in their right mind is going to go to all the bother of
re-engineering a new board for Space Invaders?
But the arcades would possibly own the games
anyway, and therefore
are
legally allowed to use the ROMs in MAME.
A few of them, perhaps, but I suspect a lot of copyright holders might
get upset about that. If you're thinking about the exemption granted
for obsolete games, it only applies where "machine or system necessary
to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer
manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial
marketplace." If someone manufactures and sells machines, especially
for use in arcades, the exemption does not apply. It probably doesn't
apply in Europe anyway -- it's an exemption to the United States
Digital Millennium Copyright Act. There is also the issue that you're not allowed to
distribute ROM
images with MAME, so you'd need some way of distributing the images
separately.
yup, that's why I said any such cab would have to be MAMEless....
cheers
w