[game_preservation] Video game legal archive

[Henry Lowood]

Hi Martin,

This is great news.  A few years back, I set up a project here at 
Stanford to see what the district court archives had.  We hired a guy to 
photocopy materials for us, and indeed we received some interesting 
stuff (some of which I used in my Pong article), but we learned that due 
to terms of the settlement(s), a lot of the material was sealed.   If, 
after scanning, you need an archival home for the papers or for the 
digitized copies, just let me know.  Ralph was a huge help on the 
article, and I feel like I owe him.

Best,

Henry



Martin Goldberg wrote:

> Just wanted to inform the list, just got back from staying at my

> friend Ralph Baer's place for a few days.  Besides working on a few

> projects with him, the main purpose of the visit was to take

> possession of a large cache (8 or so legal boxes worth) of documents.

> These were patent filings and renewals, and several major court cases

> from the 70's and 80's.  These include the original Bally/Atari/Allied

> Sears case of the mid 70's, APF/Mattel in the late 70's/early 80's,

> Activision, Nintendo and more during the 80's.  The content includes

> all legal paperwork, transcriptions, and testimonies (including people

> such as Higinbotham).  Also a bunch of material related to the 70's

> home and arcade industry, such as documentation of the industries

> first licensing and such.

>

> We will now be starting the long and arduous process of cataloging and

> scanning everything to make it available online in the future.  So

> far, it looks like the cataloging method I'll be going with is:

>

> Main Subject - Sub-Subject - Folder - Doc#.

>

> Subject would be just what we have written on the box.  So like for

> the royalty payments one you'd have -

>

> RB-Royalty-Allied-1.pdf

>

> for the scan name.  RB of course being Ralph Baer, Royalty being the

> box, Allied being the folder, and 1 being whatever document that is in

> the folder.

>

>

> Marty

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