Re: ESA

The ESA are getting cooked in the replies on Twitter with every post they put up.

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 Under the older Universal Copyright Convention, 25 years was the minimum, but that has been superseded by the Berne Convention and even before Berne, most countries set longer terms for copyright protection.