Editorial: Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain

Sun, 02 Mar 2014 11:43:14 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/03/editorial-why-games-should-enter-the-public-domain/>

"I said it frustrates me that games more than a couple of decades old
aren’t entering the public domain. Twenty years was a fairly arbitrary
number, one that seems to make sense in the context of games’ lives, but
it could be twenty-five, thirty. It’s not the point here. My point was,
and is, that I have a desire for artistic creations to more quickly
(indeed, at all) be released into the public domain, after a significant
period of time during which the creator can profit."

An impassioned editorial on the importance of the cultural commons.
Some interesting discussion in the comments, too.

Share and enjoy,
                *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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