[VonGuard]

Then they would enter public domain. Copyright, however, lasts a very, very long time. Longer than the history of computing.

[gknoy]

It sounds like archivists could image the disks and transport those across mediums, in the interest of archival, as long as they didn't distribute them, though. Am I mistaken?

[VonGuard]

You are correct. We can now do just about anything we want short of redistribution or commercialization.