Re: ESA

Video games are almost always works for hire, so under US law they get a copyright term of 95 years after publication. 25 years is only the minimum under the Berne Convention for photographic works, everything else gets a minimum of either life plus 50 years or 50 years after publication. Under the older Universal Copyright Convention, 25 years was the minimum, but that has been superseded by the Berne Convention and even before Berne, most countries set longer terms for copyright protection.

After 25 years most copyrights are void. Gaming and software is For lifetime plus 70 years? This is so crazy stupid. These are old games that should be used not forgotten. The people that put their hard work sweat and soul making these games are in tears seeing the greed and lack of vision by the so called owners that have no talent of there own. They are trying to hoard these works so we have to "buy " new content. Little do they know or care it will kill the industry.