Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc. was a decision in 1992 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that applied American intellectual property law to the reverse engineering of computer software. Issues in the case included the scope of copyright, permissible uses for trademarks, and the scope of the fair use doctrine for computer code. It arose after video game publisher Accolade published several games for the Sega Genesis (pictured), disassembling it to publish games without being licensed by Sega. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Sega, preventing Accolade from publishing any more games for the Genesis and requiring them to recall all of their Genesis games on sale. Accolade appealed on the grounds that their reverse engineering of the Genesis was protected under fair use. The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's order and ruled that Accolade's use of reverse engineering to publish Genesis titles was protected under fair use, and that its alleged violation of Sega trademarks was the fault of Sega. The case is frequently cited in matters involving reverse engineering and fair use under copyright law.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1572:
Eighty Years' War: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios waded across the river Scheldt at its mouth, walking overnight in water to chest height, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Goes
1740:
Per the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, Maria Theresa assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa
1941:
World War II: German soldiers began a massacre of thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in Nazi-occupied Serbia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kragujevac_massacre
1973:
Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, formally opened the Sydney Opera House on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House
1982:
During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, a large number of attendees tried to leave the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at the same time, resulting in a stampede that caused 66 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
unciform: Of the shape of a hook; hook-shaped. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unciform
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
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