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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade On August 28, 1992, the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court
by qbrass 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
On August 28, 1992, the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's verdict and ruled that Accolade's decompilation of the Sega software constituted fair use. The court's written opinion followed on October 20 and noted that the use of the software was non-exploitative, despite being commercial,and that the trademark infringement, being required by the TMSS for a Genesis game to run on the system, was inadvertently triggered by a fair use act and the fault of Sega for causing false labeling.
- cookiecaper 12y agoIt seems like once people realized that the internet and computers were going to stick around for a long time and make serious money, reasonable decisions like this pretty much went out the window. Maybe all of those late-90s laws like the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act and the DMCA bound the judiciary's hands.