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From: lar@pc.usl.edu (Robert, Lane A.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is AMAX doomed?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 18:04:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: mike@maths.tcd.ie's message of 11 Oct 90 10:18:21 GMT

In article <1990Oct11.101821.13021@maths.tcd.ie>
mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) writes:
   In article <LAR.90Oct5110105@pc.usl.edu>, lar@usl.edu (Robert, Lane A.) wrote:
   >Sorry, still illegal.  Even if you own the Mac.  Any mechanism that
   >makes a copy of the ROM image violates Apple's copyright, unless it is

        No, if you're going to use the routines on only one CPU then
   you're okay there. I guess you just have to promise never to
   operate both your Amiga and Mac at the same time :-)

Not true.  I quote from the book _The_Law_of_Computer_Technology_ by
Raymond T. Nimmer:

     "Assuming copyrightability and compliance with the statutory
     requirements, an author may enforce certain exclusive rights
     in a work.  These include the exclusive right to reproduce the
     work, to distribute copies, and to prepare derivative works.
     Under the terms of the Act, a person who acts in violation of
     these exclusive rights infringes the copyright and may be
     subject to civil or criminal liability."

Thus it is the act of *copying* that is protected, not the use.

Lane
lar@usl.edu