[Coco] Copyright???

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 19:55, clifford redding wrote:
>The following is just a little excerpt from the following link.
>Seems the DMCA not only screws consumers, it screws everyone!
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>Correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but it seems that the CoCo no
> longer has a copyright. Nor the programs that were written for it.
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>/excerpt
>Source  http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
>On October 28, 2003, the Librarian of Congress, on the
> recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, announced the classes
> of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against
> circumvention of technological measures that control access to
> copyrighted works. The four classes of works exempted are:
>3. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that
> have become obsolete and which require the original media or
> hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered
> obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a
> work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no
> longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace
>These exemptions will remain in effect through October 27, 2006.
>
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Well, this sword cuts both ways I guess.  OT1H, it opens things up so 
we can figure out how things were done.  OT2H, anything we do might 
not be copyrightable.  Hmmmmm.

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