Market effect, the factor perhaps given the greatest weight, has protected as fair use instances of infringement in the interest of promoting competition and advancement while preventing monopolies among developers. The seminal cases hold that reverse engineering is “fair use” as it pertains to the...
Q. E. D. And, incidentally, the Supreme Court did almost the same thing with the whole of the Clayton Act by picking on other meaningless legalistic words to prove that most trusts were not trusts and most monopolies were not monopolies – according to The Law. You can change the laws ...
The Sherman Act was brought into effect in the year 1890, while Clayton Act was made in effect in year 1914. The Sherman act had...