[General Discussion] Classic Games and Future Generations?

I'm actually writing a paper on this very subject right now. I'm a student in a library school and taking an archives class, which is all about the preservation and migration of information from one form to another.

It turns out that there's a provision in US copyright law that waives the usual protective rights to intellectual property in the form of software, so long as it's being stored and maintained in a library or archive for educational or preservtion purposes.

I'm planning to argue that preserving old games in an official archive would be the best way to keep them alive for posterity, since copyright wouldn't be a problem and the setting might help get them appriciated in a scholarly, literary, or cultural context.

Jam it back in, in the dark.