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Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books (gizmodo.com)
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"Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA."

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

See also first sale doctrine:

“Lending of physical books held by the library is permitted under the first sale doctrine. In other instances, such as making copies of articles and checking them out to students, libraries may rely on fair use to justify course reserves. A recent landmark case related to electronic reserves is Cambridge v. Patton, in which a group of publishers sued Georgia State University for their liberal e-reserves policy. The courts held GSU to be the prevailing party, finding fair use in the majority of alleged infringements”

https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/copyright/libraries#:~:text=to%20course%20reserves%3F-,A.,use%20to%20justify%20course%20reserves.

See also Ben Franklin:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ben-franklin-invented-library-as-we-know-it-180983983/