Jason Scott (archive.org) - Running an Online Arcade in the Era of Perpetual Copyright #PABC2015

In the continuation of their collaborative program on Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age which started beginning of 2015, iMAL and Packed organised the first international symposium in Brussels on the issues of preservation of born-digital art and culture and their public access. http://www.imal.org/preservationsymposium Jason Scott / Internet Archive LAST LIFE: Running an Online Arcade in the Era of Perpetual Copyright What happens when you open your retro arcade and 9 million people show up in the first week? Well, you get hard lessons and data on what happens as emulation, nostalgia, commercial properties and society converge in one place. Jason Scott steps through the supernova to bring back a few glowing handfuls of software history's future. About Jason Scott Jason Scott is the Software Curator and Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. He oversees a range of projects, from a file format information service to the addition of hundreds of terabytes of web history into the Archive's stacks. - http://archive.org/details/internetarcade Intro music: Dighom - Nuurat (https://archive.org/details/apl009)