The purpose of Emupedia is to serve as a nonprofit meta-resource hub and community

for those interested mainly in video game preservation and computer history which
aims to digitally collect, archive and preserve games and software to make them
available online accessible by a user-friendly UI that simulates several retro
operating systems for educational purposes.

We mainly collect content from:

* a wide variety of systems no longer in production

* abandonware, shareware or freeware games websites
* open source ports of old games that work in modern web browsers
* new games and software developed with modern web technologies using retro-style
graphics

We revive old games and software by the use of emulation software.

Similar organizations that do digital preservation and archiving:

* Internet Archive
* Archive Team
* Video Game History Foundation
* International Center for the History of Electronic Games
* more on Wikipedia

Legal issues

In general, the copying and distribution of video games that are under copyright
without authorization is considered a copyright violation (often called as software
piracy).

Through the Library of Congress, some key exemptions to the DMCA have been granted
to allow for video game preservation.

* In the 2003 set of exemptions, the Library disallowed enforcement of the DMCA
for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction
or damage and which are obsolete" and for "computer programs and video games
distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original
media or hardware as a condition of access".
* In the 2015 exemptions, the Library granted permission for preservationists to
work around copy-protection in games which required an authentication step with an
external server that was no longer online prior to playing the game which otherwise
did not require online connectivity; this specifically did not cover games that
were based on a server-client mode like most massively-multiplayer online games
(MMOs).
* In the 2018 exemptions, the Library allowed for preservation and fair use of
server-based games like MMos, permitting preservationists to offer such games where
they have legally obtained the game's code within museums and libraries.

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others.

If you own the copyrights to a title on Emupedia and would like to request removal
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working days.
Please include the following information in your claim request:

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* Your full address, phone number, and email address;
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not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
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in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner of the copyright interest
involved or are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
* Your electronic or physical signature.

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Removal Requests.

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