Copyrights in Digital Information. Nintendo of America, Inc, manufactures a home vid-eo game system, ...

Copyrights in Digital Information. Nintendo of America, Inc, manufactures a home vid-eo game system, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Nintendo designed the NES to prevent it from accepting unauthorized video game cartridges. Microprocessor chips in the NES consoles were coded to accept only Nintendo cartridges. Atari Games Corp wanted to sell video game cartridges that could be used in the NES consoles. Atari attempted to analyze the NES lockout program through reverse engineering. Unable to do so successfully, Atari obtained a copy of the human-readable source code of the NES program from the U.S. Copyright Office by means of false representations. Atari was then able to decode the NES lockout program through reverse engineering and develop a program to place in its cartridges to allow its games to be played on the NES. Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Atari, alleging that Atari had infringed Nintendo's copyright in the NES program when it made copies of the program code during the course of its reverse engineering. Atari argued that copying for the purposes of reverse engineering is a fair use. What will result in court? Discuss.

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