Harris Tweed Authority

In Galoob v. Nintendo, the ninth Circuit held that modification of copyrighted software program for personal use was honest. In Laptop Associates v. Altai (1992), the Second Circuit proposed the abstraction-filtration-comparison test for identifying these protected parts. In Sega v. Accolade, the 9th Circuit held that making copies in the course of reverse engineering is a good use, when it is the one technique to get entry to the "ideas and useful elements" within the copyrighted code, and when "there is a reliable cause for in search of such access". Moreover, "owners of copies" have the proper to resell their…