Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
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Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
The so-called exception in the copyright law is "reseach" not "programming
research". Those are different things. You can't do "programming
research" under the exception.
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Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
>
> At 04:59 AM 11/19/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >That's probably true. However, I thought this thread was about the legal
> >issues, not the profit and/or reality issues. TI most likely won't go
> >after people using their ROM to make free games, however that doesn't mean
> >it isn't illegal.
>
> Actually, it is quite legal. Shall I tell you once again about the
> "programming research" exception and be redundant or shall I refer you to
> previous e-mails for all the information you could ever need? Option 2
> will save bandwidth, so I now refer you to all the previous e-mails, on the
> copyright law exception of "programming research" purposes, that I wrote.
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