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Please tell me you're not an intellectual property lawyer. If you are, think I'll just give up writing software right now, it would be hopeless. :) Anyhow, if the cartridge has a chip, it most likely contains code, that's why you embed chips. Otherwise a simple little electronic sensing/pulsing device would do fine. There is no way you can legally sell the modified code if it contains any of the original code. Plus, typically you don't buy code, you license its use. As far as the code is concerned, it's not anything like your example. Pam Austin Franklin wrote: > > > IF you cirmvient the problem by modifying the printer so that it no > > longer uses the code in question, obviously there's no copyright issue - > > but if you develop a system that uses an unauthorized copy of the code > > to allow the use of other ink cartridges, you're into copyright > > violation. > > Were would you use this code? There are only two places, in the printer or > in the cartridge. The cartridge doesn't have any code in it, per se, just > data. The printer has code, and if you modify the code, you aren't > breaking any copyright laws. > > Though the license agreements that come with software typically claim that > you can't modify it, they are legally incorrect. You may modify the code, > the mechanics of the printer, anything about the printer, it is yours, you > bought it. The only thing you can't do is violate EPA and DOT regulations, > and since these don't apply to Epson printers, that I know of, you're safe > there ;-) > > Technically, you could sell the modified code, as long as you sold it > intact...and you didn't retain any rights to it. It would be like a > company such as AMG, who buys Mercedes cars, modifies them, then re-sells > them. The original seller does not have to honor the warranty of modified > code/cars though. > > - > * Save 10% on Lysonic & Fotonic inks through Oct 31, 2000! * > * FREE Next Day Delivery! OEM & Third Party Inkjet Inks. * > * http://www.InkZone.com Use code "leben1" to get your discount. * -- Pamela G. Niedermayer Pinehill Softworks Inc. 600 W. 28th St., Suite 103 Austin, TX 78705 512-236-1677 512-236-8143 fax http://www.pinehill.com - * Save 10% on Lysonic & Fotonic inks through Oct 31, 2000! * * FREE Next Day Delivery! OEM & Third Party Inkjet Inks. * * http://www.InkZone.com Use code "leben1" to get your discount. *
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