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From: gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.micro
Subject: Modifying Copyrighted ROM's
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 00:34:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 00:34:48 1985
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I am curious as to the legality of taking a copyrighted ROM from my
own computer and making a copy of it (with changes) and then using this
new ROM in my computer (I had to do this to support an oddball disk on
my IBM PC/AT).  Did I do anything illegal (Egad!).  What if a friend
who also owns a copy of the original ROM wants a copy of the new ROM.
Can I give him one?  How about those companies who sell
add-on disks for the AT and give you modified IBM ROM's - are they
legally doing so, do they need an agreement with IBM?

Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134
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