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First post, by Enigmaman

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I am researching a project about old Arcade/Console/PC games available for download from the various old games archives available.

However I am concerned about legal issues before urging people to possibly infringe copyright laws.

Can anyone tell me please what the legal position is re: downloading from these archives of old games? And are emulators of old games using eg Flash Player actually legal?

I would appreciate any input on these matters. I live in the UK so only need to know about UK laws.

TIA

Enigmaman

Reply 1 of 4, by MiniMax

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IANAL and it sounds like you need one.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Jorpho

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"Emulators of old games using eg Flash Player" ? There is no such thing, if I am not mistaken. There are remakes of old games written in Flash, but those are not emulators.

Reply 3 of 4, by MiniMax

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Some previous discussions we have had:

Legally getting older games.
Abandonware and Dosbox

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