Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!SENECA.BITNET!STEVENS From: STEVENS@SENECA.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: RE: re:re:re:rom copyrights Message-ID: <8905052032.aa09607@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 6 May 89 00:31:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 37 From: Info-apple@BRL.MIL To: MURRAY STEVENS Subj: RE: re:re:re:rom copyrights Shawn Stanley WRITES: >>> "well, since no Apple agreement states you can copy roms" etc. etc. "Yes >>> it is Illegal" >>STEVENS@SENECA.BITNET writes: >>But I felt I had to say something! HUMMPPHH! :-) >>Sorry if I was Obtrusive! But even Murph gets that way sometimes :-) >Oh my. Quite an outburst... well I did say I was sorry! :-) >I checked with the copyright office, and they said that the owner of a >copyrighted product is allowed, per the Copyright Act, to make a backup copy >of the software. Modifications to the copy are considered "derivative works", >and are copyright infringements. All copies must be destroyed when the >original is transferred to another owner. Are you saying you were wrong? :-) Ok so we are agreed, then, that you can Backup Your Roms, But don't change them. Actually, I beleive, (though again I could be mistaken) that copying to a Different Media is also Illegal. (at least it is with print and film media) So Backing up your roms to disk would be Illegal! *_Jawaid Bazyar_* You have read the copywrite laws! what say you? Once again, thankyou in advance, in retrospect, and otherwise for Listening! Murray Stevens@Seneca (I can't see why my boss would want ANY of my comments!)