From: Wolfgang Roeckelein <wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 06:04:28 PDT
To: Greg Broiles <greg@ideath.goldenbear.com>
Subject: Re: copyrighting algorithms
Message-ID: <9507281303.AA08172@sirius.wi.WHU-Koblenz.de>
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Hi,

>Wolfgang Roeckelein writes:
>> No, I was referring to a case, where a third party game cartridges
>> manufacturer reverse engineered the specifications of the game
>> cartridges slot for producing his own cartridges for this game.
>
>Sounds like _Sega v. Accolade_, 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir., 1993). 

>I don't have it in front of me, but Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ
>(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/law/copyright/faq/part2)
>cites it for the proposition that dissasembly of a copyrighted work
>can be fair use if there is no other way to reach noncopyrightable
>(functional, not expressive) elements of an existing work. 



Yes, thank you for pointing this out. I'm glad that I was right with Sega...

  Wolfgang
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