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Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online

Skip to content Register of Copyrights sides with industry's "market harm" argument for rereleased games. Currently, the only way for researchers to access these games in the Strong Museum's collection is to visit Rochester, NY in person. Credit: Strong Museum of Play Earlier this year, we reported on the video game archivists asking for a legal DMCA exemption to share Internet-accessible emulated versions of their physical game collections with researchers. Today, the US Copyright Office announ...

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