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From: apn@nonvon.UUCP (root)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cloning the new IBMs without violating copyrights
Message-ID: <116@nonvon.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 04:16:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: nonvon.116
Posted: Mon May  4 04:16:32 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 01:33:25 EDT
References: <313@attila.weitek.UUCP>
Organization: NONVON Systems Computer Research Group
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in article <313@attila.weitek.UUCP>, mahar@weitek.UUCP (Mike Mahar) says:
> 
> There is a concept in the U.S. called restraint of trade. A corporation
> can't require a copyright notice to be an integral part of the function
> of a machine. A competitor would simply put the copyright notice in
> his machine because it is required to make it work. If IBM objects
> on copyright infringements there is a good case that the intent of the

	Does this apply to the fact that certain software by a very large
DOS oriented company requires parts of  copyright notices be present in
the firmware of the machine in order to operate ?


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