-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Wolfgang Roeckelein writes:
No, I was referring to a case, where a third party game cartridges manufacturer reverse engineered the specifications of the game cartridges slot for producing his own cartridges for this game.
Sounds like _Sega v. Accolade_, 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir., 1993). I don't have it in front of me, but Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/law/copyright/faq/part2) cites it for the proposition that dissasembly of a copyrighted work can be fair use if there is no other way to reach noncopyrightable (functional, not expressive) elements of an existing work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMBicgX3YhjZY3fMNAQFULwQAgvWmS1+p5BbN/C3wnVl21jqVjTL/tQIN SMITIXhXTLaNmdGtlnPANC6brOYXb/17d2zHBwR0BcUWiH/AFjBsTLIxwroOx5np kRSOk7dmw4jifrw4tMJw6Pe/pi7zs+IwT94ToEIKxcXRMs1lPruGdu2HM+kS+4ds mCF+FKmP89E= =UDoU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----