RE: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)


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RE: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)




At 04:41 AM 11/19/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Could you provide us with a link to this so called copyright law that the
>Supreme Court upheld?  That way, we can all read it and judge for
>ourselves.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/

Section 1.107

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>Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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>On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
>
>> 
>> At 06:15 PM 11/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >>Frankly, your arguments would never hold up in a court room.  The facts
>> >>are that the TI ROM is copyrighted material and you can't distribute it.
>> >>
>> >Right. You _can_ make a copy for personal use, but without TI's
permission,
>> >it's illegal to distribute it for any purpose.
>> 
>> How do you know that my arguments won't hold up in a court room?  They are
>> sound arguments legally based on the national copyright law.  Only the
>> Supreme Court could possibly overrule "programming research" by a change in
>> the law.  I have proven my point in many various ways and I seem to have
>> come out on top every single time.  I have replied to every e-mail that has
>> been sent and still proven "programming research" and the distribution of
>> ROM images under the copyright law exception to be completely and utterly
>> legal.  I may have seemed redundant at times, but that was to emphasize my
>> point.  You have all presented very good arguments against "programming
>> research."  However, I wouldn't have initially replied if I hadn't thought
>> the whole thing through in the first place.


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