ROMZ Legal / Illegal ??

Moin,

ich habe mal ne frage in wie fern die Verbreitung von Rom Images von Alten Konsolen z.B. : Snes, Genesis, Gamegear usw.
legal ist. Hoffe es kann mir jemand helfen

es ist so wie mit abandonwarez. also eigentlich illegal aber es schert sich keiner darum... ausser eben bei neuem zeugs wie n64, psx,ps2 oder dc...

Meist sind die © von so alten Proggies eh abgelaufen und wurden nicht verlängert. Aber trotzdem bleibt es 75 Jahre lang ILLEGAL, sie zu downloaden.
Ach...ich mach Copy n Past, Englisch könnt ihr wohl

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But isn't abandonware illegal?

Unfortunately, yes. Despite the fact that publishers no longer derive revenues from these games since they have stopped selling them (and any revenues from retailers that still sell them were gained a long time ago, at the time of sales), it is illegal to distribute them so long as copyright holders have not released them into the public domain, and 75 years after the games' release have not elapsed.

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The World Intellectual Property Organization
Despite the illegal status of abandonware, we believe that we are offering a valuable service to the gaming community: classic game collectors have a chance to retrieve games that have otherwise been lost or rendered defective with the passage of time. As our Disclaimer printed on every page makes clear, we will gladly remove download links to any game that is either 1) still being sold by the publisher, or 2) at the request of the publishers themselves. Encouraging publishers to continue publishing great classics of yore has always been this site's foremost goals, and we will gladly link to the publisher's order or download site without hesitation should they make their products available again, whether commercially or as freeware.