Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired?

Subject: Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired?
From: "John Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:32:08 -0800
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From: Greg Miller <gmiller@xxxxxxxx>
To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired?



>> Anyway, the labels, documentation, packaging etc. are protected by
standard
>> copyright law, but the silicon chips that are inside the game cartridges
may
>> be in a different category.  Anything created prior to 1984 may not be
>
>Correct, but the software is covered by standard copyright law. That
>makes ROMs a little different from other chips.


O.K. so just because the roms are produced with "masks" does not mean that
they are necessarily treated as "mask works" under the copyright law.

Thanks,

John Saeger


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