Space Invaders returning to arcades...

From: Witchy <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Mon Dec 8 08:47:54 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Turnbull [mailto:pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com]
> Sent: 07 December 2003 21:51
> To: witchy_at_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:
>
> > 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.

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?

> 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
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