Re: A serials pricing issue

+Mark Lemley writes:
+
+I wonder whether this is always true? In the U.S., for example, several
+courts have held that reverse engineering computer programs in order to
+design compatible programs is legitimate under the fair use doctrine. At
+least one court has been decidedly unsympathetic to a "no reverse
+engineering" contract, although that decision (Vault v. Quaid, 847 F.2d
+255 (5th Cir. 1988)) has some peculiarities.

I think the decisions have been that copies made incidental to reverse engineering of software have been fair use. The reverse engineering itself is more about the idea than about the expression.

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