[game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Hi all,

OK, I've checked and provided the legal issues are clear, I have an initial agreement we could go ahead and host, although I think Henry's point about multiple versions is very important. 

What is going to be difficult for me at the moment is gathering it all together, but if someone can pitch in with that, I can get the ball rolling at our end

Best,

Dan

Dan Pinchbeck
Advanced Games Research Group
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth, UK

www.thechineseroom.co.uk


>>> Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> 17/02/09 6:27 PM >>>

Chris,

two separate issues here:

1. Whether some of the data is held in violation of any laws, such as 
DMCA in the US. This would already be the case for the Underdogs site.  
Issues are not necessarily clear and well-defined, esp. not the 
liability of anyone taking the data from the present owners of the 
site.  I think it's virtually certain that the present owners will not 
indemnify anyone taking the data, but on the other hand, the issues were 
already there.

2. Totally separate from that, any entity taking on the task of hosting 
or archiving the data will want to document the transfer of ownership 
and the terms of the transfer.   This is an issue for institutions, for 
sure.

Neither of these is a barrier to transfer to an institution.  They are 
issues that need to be sorted out.  In fact, the transfer deed can be 
handled in a matter of minutes if a donor is eager and willing.

Henry

Chris Lepine wrote:

> If the legality of file storage is a concern, I have a private host 

> with 600gb of storage available that I would be happy to offer as (at 

> least) a temporary or long-term storage solution. Access to the 

> storage would be easy to manage, and if the metadata became available 

> it would also work as a web host for it.

>

> I can only *hope* that Sarinee kept a backup of the site/mysql databases.

>

> - Chris

> ---

> The Artful Gamer: In Search of the Lyrical and Poetic in Video Games

> http://www.artfulgamer.com

>

>> We may well be able to host if we can get hold of it. I'll check that 

>> out with my boss, but it's close enough to the work we are doing to 

>> make a case for it, if we can get an idea of the scale of hosting 

>> needed (and given we are an HE institution, there would be hoops to 

>> jump through to keep our legal people happy that everything there was 

>> legit)

>>

>> Dan

>>

>> Dan Pinchbeck

>> Advanced Games Research Group

>> School of Creative Technologies

>> University of Portsmouth, UK

>>

>> www.thechineseroom.co.uk

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