[game_preservation] Watermarks and Studio Communication

[Andrew Armstrong]

Simon Carless wrote:

> In more recent history, GamesPress:

>

> http://www.gamespress.co.uk/

>

> ...is an excellent source for unwatermarked assets. I believe you need 

> to pay a minor amount for full asset access, though. And you have to 

> be a journo to use it at all.

Simon, website noted! I have it bookmarked it seems already - yeah, it 
required a fee, so I visited it once or twice once I knew of it and that 
was it, heh. Perhaps a resource to exploit at some later date for media, 
certainly! especially if the content could be categorised and organised. 
I'll look into the site in more detail then.

For past works, it'll be necessary to talk to a variety of sources I 
guess; game magazine publishers might be helpful (older media they never 
would use again for instance, and perhaps even at-the-time screenshots 
of games they've reviewed perhaps, who knows?), as well as media 
departments of companies themselves.

It'll be a while until we have a place to store anything of this type 
anyway, but good to get these ideas here early, since it's plainly 
obvious with this discussion the actual industry has to grapple with 
watermarks sometimes (as Jim pointed out!).

Andrew