Midway Mfg. Co., an Illinois Corporation v. Artic International, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation

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• explaining that section 117, both prior to and after a 1980 amendment, “was intended only to leave unaltered the existing law governing the exclusive rights of owners of copyrights in computer programs” (emphasis added)
• balance of hardships tipped in plaintiff's favor where the sale of the accused devices was a small part of defendant's business
• \The player of a video game does not have control over the sequence of images that appears on the video game screen.... The most he can do is choose one of the limited number of sequences the game allows him to choose.\
• “The player of a video game does not have control over the sequence of images that appears on the video game screen.... The most he can do is choose one of the limited number of sequences the game allows him to choose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).