Hello All,
Sorry for cross posting, but this is urgent if we want to see games
preserved for future use and research. Please consider sending something
into Ian by the 27th if you have specific examples of how current
restrictions damage your ability to use games for research/education/etc.
Cheers,
Teresa
Teresa Slobuski
Research Services Coordinator
San Jose State University
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0028
408-808-2318
Teresa.Slobuski@sjsu.edu
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- [Digipres] Preserving Video Games - Help needed to pass a bill - "Bogus,
Ian" bogus@pobox.upenn.edu
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:59:31 +0000
Subject: [Digipres] Preserving Video Games - Help needed to pass a bill
Hello everyone,
ALA, among others, is trying to make a permanent exemption for video games
in Title 17 USC 1201 (Circumvention of copyright protection systems). I am
sure I do not have to remind those on this list of the importance that
video games play in our culture, nor the difficulty we have preserving them
because of restrictions current copyright law. So many video games have
short commercial shelf lives and are abandoned by their producers.
How you can help: ALA is looking for examples that can be made to
demonstrate the need for exempting video games from the restrictions
prohibiting memory institutions from breaking DRM for preservation purposes.
There is a strict deadline. Please send me examples, or respond to this
list by July 27th. I’ll compile and send all comments along to those making
the case.
Thanks so much,
Ian
--
Ian Bogus
MacDonald Curator of Preservation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street, Room 610
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. 215.573.1376 <(215)%20573-1376>
F. 215.898.0559 <(215)%20898-0559>
bogus@pobox.upenn.edu
End of digipres Digest Tue, 18 Jul 2017
Hello All,
Sorry for cross posting, but this is urgent if we want to see games
preserved for future use and research. Please consider sending something
into Ian by the 27th if you have specific examples of how current
restrictions damage your ability to use games for research/education/etc.
Cheers,
Teresa
--------------------------------------
Teresa Slobuski
Research Services Coordinator
San Jose State University
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0028
408-808-2318
Teresa.Slobuski@sjsu.edu
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Date: Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:26 AM
Subject: digipres Digest Tue, 18 Jul 2017
To: digipres@lists.ala.org
digipres Digest Tue, 18 Jul 2017
Table of contents:
1. [Digipres] Preserving Video Games - Help needed to pass a bill - "Bogus,
Ian" <bogus@pobox.upenn.edu>
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From: "Bogus, Ian" <bogus@pobox.upenn.edu>
To: "PADG (padg@lists.ala.org)" <padg@lists.ala.org>, Mary Barbosa-Jerez <
digipres@lists.ala.org>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:59:31 +0000
Subject: [Digipres] Preserving Video Games - Help needed to pass a bill
Hello everyone,
ALA, among others, is trying to make a permanent exemption for video games
in Title 17 USC 1201 (Circumvention of copyright protection systems). I am
sure I do not have to remind those on this list of the importance that
video games play in our culture, nor the difficulty we have preserving them
because of restrictions current copyright law. So many video games have
short commercial shelf lives and are abandoned by their producers.
How you can help: ALA is looking for examples that can be made to
demonstrate the need for exempting video games from the restrictions
prohibiting memory institutions from breaking DRM for preservation purposes.
There is a strict deadline. Please send me examples, or respond to this
list by July 27th. I’ll compile and send all comments along to those making
the case.
Thanks so much,
Ian
--
Ian Bogus
MacDonald Curator of Preservation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street, Room 610
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. 215.573.1376 <(215)%20573-1376>
F. 215.898.0559 <(215)%20898-0559>
bogus@pobox.upenn.edu
End of digipres Digest Tue, 18 Jul 2017