This basically means that if you own a SNES game, you are perfectly entitled to play a ROM version of it (necessary to launch it on the platform in question) as long as you do not simultainously launch the game on more then one system.
Yes, thats correct. Just to clarify: You may only play a ROM version of the game from that specific console you own the game on. So if you have Super Mario for NES, you are allowed to play Super Mario NES ROMs, but you are NOT allowed to play a VC port, gba port or whatever.
Nintendo certainly does not agree with it, but then again, they don't write the law.
I don't care what Nintendo thinks of my activities to be perfectly honest.
Emulation is perfectly legal in Poland provided that you have the original game, although of course everything depends on how you interpret the law. To me it's two straight-forward clauses and seeing that I've read through the entire document and its subsequent revisions, I know there's nothing in it that would strip me of that priviledge.
Emulation is the equivalent of buying an Audio CD, ripping its tracks and putting them on an MP3 player - it's utilizing the purchased goods and modifying their format if needs-be to be utilized - common sense dictates it should be legal.
-SNIP! Sorry Luc, I misread your post, I thought you meant something else entirely-
Still, this applies to the thread:
Polish Copyright Law, ACT of 4 February 1994 ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
Chapter 7. Special Provisions Concerning Computer Programs
Article 75.
2. The consent of the rightholder shall not be required: 1) to make a back-up copy if it is necessary for using such computer program. Unless the contract provides otherwise, such copy may not be used concurrently with the computer program.
Article 76.
Provisions of contracts, which are contradictory to Article 75, paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be null and void.
This means that I
can infact make back-up copies (extract ROM's) of any software I own when it is necessary to use said program ON ANY UNSPECIFIED PLATFORM while I'm not using the original concurrently and if anyone's TOS forbids me to do so, it is null and void.