Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Ruling on refilled printer cartridges touches DMCA

Ruling on refilled printer cartridges touches DMCA
by DECLAN MCCULLAGH
ZDnet, publication date: 26 October 2004
"Static Control has seized on the last exemption [interoperability], which permits reverse-engineering 'for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs' and says its creation of the Smartek chip is also protected by traditional fair use rights enshrined in U.S. copyright law."

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