[Coco] ROM Copyrights... copyrights in general...

[Dave Philipsen]

The digital copies that I've obtained all contain the byte values...

Dave


On 6/8/2017 1:53 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> With respect to the Unravelled series, it is notable also that the
> disassembly did not include the byte values, presumably for copyright
> reasons.
>
> Art
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:47 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is a good point Salvador.  And equally good point by Dennis; I
>> agree w/ his assessment and informative article.
>>
>> What is interesting, is this is taking place way back when Tandy/MS etc
>> were still making money selling CoCo's and so were the authors of the
>> Unraveled Series of books. But in this case the re-distribution of
>> Copyrighted material by the books was probably helping them sell more
>> CoCo’s, not less.
>>
>> James
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Dennis
>> Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com>
>>
>> On Thu, June 8, 2017 11:33 am, Salvador Garcia via Coco wrote:
>>> As a
>>> possible precedent, I look to the Unraveled Series of books. These
>> present
>>> in-depth information about the ROMs that could be considered proprietary.
>> On the other hand, this might be considered a transformational use, and in
>> those early days of software copyrights (remember software copyright
>> wasn't in
>> force until 1980), this would have been difficult to address. The
>> transformation of binary object code to commented assembly code might have
>> met
>> this test. See below for examples:
>>
>> <http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-what-transformative.html>
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
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