________________________________________________________________________________ ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: JOHANNESULBRICHT@cs.com Date sent: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 05:41:19 EST Subject: Urheberrechts-Urteil mit vielleicht weitreichenden Folgen To: debate@fitug.de USA - Court Zaps Copyright Case Over Sony Software (The Recorder/Cal Law) Software manufacturers may use copyrighted material to create a non-infringing final product, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled. In a case closely watched by the software industry and the legal community, the court concluded in Sony v. Connectix that the process of "reverse engineering" a copyrighted product to make a non-infringing emulation constitutes "fair use." http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem6645.htm -- Janko Roettgers - roettgers@devcon.net - http://www.devcon.net/~roettgers/ ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org