Re: Copying to Ram Memory
You may want to look at the following cases.
WERNER, ZAROFF, SLOTNICK, STERN & ASKENAZY v. LEWIS,
588 N.Y.S.2d 960;
U.S. v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504
North Tel v. Brandl, 179 B.R. 629 (a bankruptcy case which involves
someone illegally loading a virus).
I hope this helps.
Richard Hopkins
UCLA Law, Class of 97.
<rhopkins[_at_]activision.com>
> Date: 5/23/96 10:06 AM
> To: Richard Hopkins
> From: cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
>
> A somewhat tangential copyright question:
>
> Is anyone aware of any U.S. court case involving a seller or
> manufacturer's liability for selling computer software containing
> a virus? I've been looking for any such case throughout today,
> and really have not come up with anything. (There are, however,
> a fair number of articles discussing why such liability should
> exist--it's just that the court hasn't seemed to reach such a
> conclusion, at least not in any published decision.)
>
> Thanks for any leads.
>
>
> Michael E. Sobel, Esq.
> Graham & James LLP
> One Maritime Plaza, Suite 300
> San Francisco, California 94111
> 415/954-0200 - msobel[_at_]gj.com
Received on Thu May 23 1996 - 17:42:46 GMT