Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired?

[Greg Miller <gmiller@xxxxxxxx>]

John Saeger wrote:
> 
> Maybe the copyrights on the original 2600 game cartridges have expired by
> now.  The original games weren't software, they were game cartridges 

Depends... Have any of the authors been dead 75 years yet?

with
> computer chips inside.  Computer chips are only protectable for 5-years as
> "mask works".  The .bin files that currently are available were 

The software, however, is protectable for the life of the original
author+75 years. Some of them were (I think) around before the latest
change in copyright law, but I don't think any of them would have
expired, regardless.

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