Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc.
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midway-manufacturing-co-v-artic-international-inc-294-15445771
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Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc.
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Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc., 704 F.2d 1009, was a legal case where the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found that Artic violated Midway's copyright in their arcade games Pac-Man and Galaxian. The lawsuit was part of a trend of "knock-off" video games in the early 1980s, with courts recognizing that a video game can qualify for protection as a copyrighted audiovisual work. Both Galaxian and Pac-Man were bestselling games in the early 1980s, with P
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U.S. Court of Appeals case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Manufacturing_Co._v._Artic_International,_Inc.
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2023-06-19T22:03:04Z
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