Law school

[SwampGas]

If you or anyone you know is going to law school and want to do some pro bono work for credit or a paper or something...I'd like the legality of emulation researched (including references to the DMCA).

1) YOU copying the ROM from a cartridge or CD that you legally purchased.
2) Obtaining the ROM that SOMEONE ELSE copied from the cartridge or CD that s/he legally purchased when:
2a) you own the original as well
2b) you do NOT own the original
3) Emulating a chipset
3a) Reverse engineering the chipset to emulate it
3b) Using leaked (and presumably illegal) documentation or SDKs to emulate it
3c) Using freely available documentation/SDKs
4) Distributing the ROM code for the music data (SPC/GYM/NSF)
5) Distributing data (a patch, not a program executable) which modifies and/or circumvents encryption on the ROM data (CPS2 XOR)
6) Distributing data (a patch, not a program executable) which modifies the ROM data itself (translation/hacks)

Obviously our friends at Nintendo, Sony, MS, et al read this site and board...so if you'd like to chime in, it's sam at zophar dot net.

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[Shamanix]

> If you or anyone you know is going to law school and want to
> do some pro bono work for credit or a paper or
> something...I'd like the legality of emulation researched
> (including references to the DMCA).

Not going to law school and don't feel like digging up references to the USC right at the moment, but a bunch of this is just in the regular copyright stuff and the DMCA doesn't directly apply, just so you're aware.

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[SwampGas]

> Not going to law school and don't feel like digging up
> references to the USC right at the moment, but a bunch of
> this is just in the regular copyright stuff and the DMCA
> doesn't directly apply, just so you're aware.

I'm looking for a thorough and in-depth analysis of the copyright law, including the new stuff introduced by the DMCA.

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