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Re: Archiving Apple ][e discs



"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:44:30 -0500, Martin Doherty
> <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com> wrote:
>
> >OK no need to answer that last question, there is a thread over in
> >comp.emulators.apple2 which addressed it thoroughly. One line summary:
> >copyright exists, but not defended due to negligible commercial value)
>
> You might want to check up on that.  There are some people that
> believe that and continue to tell everyone that but the last time I
> look at US copyright law, I don't recall seeing anything about
> commercial or monetary value.

Weren't there recent recisions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that
referred to obsolete software? I think it is legal, now, to circumvent
copy-protection on software that runs on obsolete platforms. Someone want to
confirm/clarify this?