[Coco] ROM Copyrights... copyrights in general...

[Arthur Flexser]

Hmm, I was probably confusing the Unravelled books with Spectral's earlier
(1981) publication, The Facts For The TRS-80 Color Computer, which also
contained a disassembly of part of the ROMs and which definitely (I just
checked) had no byte values.

Or, maybe this was a difference between editions of the Unravelled books.

Art

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> The digital copies that I've obtained all contain the byte values...
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 6/8/2017 1:53 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
>> With respect to the Unravelled series, it is notable also that the
>> disassembly did not include the byte values, presumably for copyright
>> reasons.
>>
>> Art
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:47 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, that is a good point Salvador.  And equally good point by Dennis; I
>>> agree w/ his assessment and informative article.
>>>
>>> What is interesting, is this is taking place way back when Tandy/MS etc
>>> were still making money selling CoCo's and so were the authors of the
>>> Unraveled Series of books. But in this case the re-distribution of
>>> Copyrighted material by the books was probably helping them sell more
>>> CoCo’s, not less.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Dennis
>>> Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com>
>>>
>>> On Thu, June 8, 2017 11:33 am, Salvador Garcia via Coco wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a
>>>> possible precedent, I look to the Unraveled Series of books. These
>>>>
>>> present
>>>
>>>> in-depth information about the ROMs that could be considered
>>>> proprietary.
>>>>
>>> On the other hand, this might be considered a transformational use, and
>>> in
>>> those early days of software copyrights (remember software copyright
>>> wasn't in
>>> force until 1980), this would have been difficult to address. The
>>> transformation of binary object code to commented assembly code might
>>> have
>>> met
>>> this test. See below for examples:
>>>
>>> <http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-what-transf
>>> ormative.html>
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>>
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