Re:The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation
by matheusmoreira on Sunday November 26, 2023 @02:10AM
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Decompiling code is a reverse engineering method that provides access to the non-copyrightable elements of the code.
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Re:The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation
by mjg59 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @12:19PM
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Yes. It also provides access to the copyrightable elements of the code. In this respect the decompiled code is identical to the object code, which is also made up of a mixture of copyrightable and non-copyrightable elements. Combining copyrightable and non-copyrightable elements into one thing gives you a work that copyright can be asserted over. The argument in the case you cited is that the defendant extracted the non-copyrightable elements and built their own work based on those. That's not what's happening in the case under discussion here, which is derived from the copyrightable elements as well.