Soulja Boy isnt scared of Nintendo

mmj_uk

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TBH Copyright's should have a time limit and be relinquished if a company doesn't do anything with them for 20 years or so. There are lots of people begging for old retro stuff but the company who owns the Copyright has long since moved on and isn't interested in selling them and yet popular fan projects get shut down by them. Instead of being kept alive and preserved those things will just die when the company eventually goes bankrupt or be forgotten about because newer generations have never seen it.
 
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mmj_uk said:
TBH Copyright's should have a time limit and be relinquished if a company doesn't do anything with them for 20 years or so. There are lots of people begging for old retro stuff but the company who owns the Copyright has long since moved on and isn't interested in selling them and yet popular fan projects get shut down by them. Instead of being kept alive and preserved those things will just die when the company eventually goes bankrupt or be forgotten about because newer generations have never seen it.
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Copyright for books and films is about 70 years in the UK (from year of death of the author, etc.), not sure where games fall into this, not sure they do...

But 20 years isn't that long, if I had spent millions creating something original in the late 90s why should anyone who wants to make money from my hard work be able to cash in on it with little to no effort?

There is a conversation to be had around the preservation of games but this guy isn't interested in that, he just wants to make money.
 
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