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Comment from YouTbe user NullPoEx: Copyright should expire when a product is no longer commercially viable in its original form. IE, when a game is released for MS DOS, the game's original release should become free to distribute when Microsoft drops support for MS DOS, making the game no longer commercially viable. Any re-release should be categorically different enough to justify a NEW copyright and should be measurably improved over the official release, containing either new features or significant improvements to its graphics, sound, and code to present it as a derivative work. Simply porting it to a new platform isn't sufficient.

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Comment from YouTbe user NullPoEx: Copyright should expire when a product is no longer commercially viable in its original form. IE, when a game is released for MS DOS, the game's original release should become free to distribute when Microsoft drops support for MS DOS, making the game no longer commercially viable. Any re-release should be categorically different enough to justify a NEW copyright and should be measurably improved over the official release, containing either new features or significant improvements to its graphics, sound, and code to present it as a derivative work. Simply porting it to a new platform isn't sufficient.
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Clarissa the Dogcow :moof: (clarusplusplus@argon.city)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:17:11 JST Clarissa the Dogcow :moof:

I saw this comment on a YouTube video about eXoDOS, and I find it really upsetting.
By their logic, my company's games are automatically "abandonware" the day they come out, because they're "no longer commercially viable" because Microsoft no longer "supports" MS-DOS
If I make a new NES game, does it automatically go in the "abandonware" bin?
Or better yet, let's say I made a Wii U game last decade. Should I lose my copyright on it because I decided not to port it to Switch?
Fuck this attitude

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