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		jackvalentine 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sega's killing one of the only sources of legal RO... This kind of behaviour just bolsters the case that copyright is too long.

foxyv 10 months ago [–]

We at least need an abandonment clause to copyright law for software. If you no longer produce copies of a thing for sale, then you lose the copyright after a certain reduced period.

az09mugen 10 months ago | [–]

Definitively, some legal status for abandonware.

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