2009-01-31, 06:34 AM
oknoproblem Wrote:According to the "COPYRIGHT IN ORIGINAL LITERARY, DRAMATIC, MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC WORKS", decompilation is perfectly legal as long as it is necessary to decompile the computer program to achieve the objective of obtaining the information necessary to create an independent computer program which can be operated with the computer program decompiled or with another computer program and does not use the information to create a computer program which is substantially similar in its expression to the computer program decompiled. The 'server' software is the complete opposite of the 'client' software.
just thought id point this out to you from your own quote, it says it is illegal if it is similar to the original. Since PS' are basically copies (with some added stuff for some), it falls under being similar. Now, if the game was edited visually throughout, and all the characters looked like chinchillas, and the monsters were all carrots, pomegranates, pineapples and such, you may be able to argue that it is not similar to the original. So, in simple terms, if it looks like a duck, smells like a duck, but chirps like a chicken, it would be considered a poorly made duck. Or in other words, what ever the end product of the decompiling of the original brings, it mostly has to be different than the original.