Copyright should only exist if the entire work, including the entire code base, is held in escrow by the copyright office.
If you don’t do that, you don’t get protection. This is literally the reason why patents exist, you tell us how you did it, and we prevent anyone else from copying that method for a period of time.
(2) if the work is a sound recording, two complete phonorecords of the best edition, together with any printed or other visually perceptible material published with such phonorecords.
Neither the deposit requirements of this subsection nor the acquisition provisions of subsection (e) are conditions of copyright protection.
(b) The required copies or phonorecords shall be deposited in the Copyright Office for the use or disposition of the Library of Congress.
for the most part the game companies now furnish us with a copy of the game, many times one copy for each platform for which the game is available. We now receive games for a variety of platforms including PlayStation 3, XBOX, Wii, DS, PSP and PC.
That interview was in 2012, in case you’re curious.
Copyright should only exist if the entire work, including the entire code base, is held in escrow by the copyright office.
If you don’t do that, you don’t get protection. This is literally the reason why patents exist, you tell us how you did it, and we prevent anyone else from copying that method for a period of time.
Mandatory deposit is already required for copyright registration, and this includes video games.
Wtf??? Then they have nothing to fucking say about the copyright of games, if they don’t have them preserved at the copyright office
Do we know if they send copies over there, or otherwise archive them there? If not, then fucking hell
That interview was in 2012, in case you’re curious.