-ArS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT POLICY
FAIR
WARNING!
· :-RIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS A FEDERAL CRIME!
(nited States Code contains the follo wing provisions:
C:riminal Offenses
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INFRINGEMENT. -- Any person who infringes a copyright
of commercial advantage or private financial5<1 in shall be fined not
imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Prmi ded, however,
- · ges willfully and for purposes of comillercial adYantage or private
~Tight in a motion picture ... shall be fined not more than S25,000 or
than one year, or both, for the first such offense and shall be fined not
::: oc imprisoned for not more than two years, or both, for an. subsequent
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;R.E AND DESTRUCTION. --When any per.;on iscomicted of any
t:Ji32:il:lrt.d
t tS!COoo a), the court in its judg(fment of conviction shall in addition to the
~scril:>ed,
order the forfeiture and destruction or other disposition of all
pbonorecords and all implements, devices, or equipment used in the
infringing copies or phonorecords."
States Customs Service has for some time enforced copyrights in
embodied in video games such as GALAXIAN"', PAC-MANTN,
the F ederal Courts have recognized the alidity of such copyrights,
:::::.::::C::a:tmers, distributors and operators who continue to flaunt the law by
. These companies undermine the creativit) which is essential to the
~uu.::.- nature of this problem, Midway now gives notice that it intends to
c::Jt::li:Zl r:r::s;o:;;rioos against such companies in cases of willful infringement of its
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XIANTN, PAC-MANTM' RALLY-XTN and GORF", as well as in its
:\RD OF WOR'M, and other video games\ hen released Midway will
- . · _- to obtain enforcement
ac:':5~ :U::::D!!:=a:m-oi Trade Commission, and by civil actions against infringers for injunctions,
Ar present, Midway is actively engaged in such civil actions in the U.S.
~::::& se enteen defendants, in Phoenix, AZ, Omaha, NE, Providence, RI,
In some of these actions the defendants games an circuit boards
seized by the U.S. Marshal pm:suant to the impoundment provisions of the
_- a ailable legal action is being taken to protect Mich ay's proprietary
highly successful video games.
MIDWAY MFG. CO.
A BALLY COMPANY
Franklin Park, Illinois 60131
© 1981
MIDWAY MFG. CO. All rights reserved .