Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp.
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apple-computer-inc-v-franklin-computer-corp-204-4640398
title:
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp.
text:
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F.2d 1240, was the first time an appellate level court in the United States held that a computer's BIOS could be protected by copyright. As second impact, this ruling clarified that binary code, the machine readable form of software and firmware, was copyrightable too and not only the human-readable source code form of software. Franklin Computer Corporation introduced the Franklin Ace 1000, a clone of Apple Computer's Apple II, in 1982. Apple
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Court case in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Franklin_Computer_Corp.
date created:
2004-10-30T15:17:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T20:49:04Z
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