| Atari Games Corp. v Nintendo of America, Inc. 975 F.2d 832 (Fed. Circ. 1992), 1992. |
....decompilation in certain circumstances. As such, the EU was the first to acknowledge the need for such exceptions, and no cases have been taken to the courts. US In the US, the fair use defence was used in Sega Enterprises Ltd v Accolade, Inc [34] and Atari Games Corp v Nintendo of America, Inc [2]. In both cases, the courts found that disassembly of a program to find the interface functionality to a machine, and the incorporation of that interface information in another program (a competing program) was a fair use. In the court s words in Sega: We conclude that where disassembly is the ....
Atari Games Corp. v Nintendo of America, Inc. 975 F.2d 832 (Fed. Circ. 1992), 1992.
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