Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp.
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Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp.
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Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp., 672 F.2d 607, is one of the first legal cases applying copyright law to video games, barring sales of the game K.C. Munchkin! for its similarities to Pac-Man. Atari had licensed the commercially successful arcade game Pac-Man from Namco and Midway, to produce a version for their Atari 2600 console. Around the same time, Philips created Munchkin as a similar maze-chase game, leading Atari to sue them for copyright infringement. Re
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1982 legal case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc._v._North_American_Philips_Consumer_Electronics_Corp.
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2023-09-29T01:35:08Z
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