Legal Opinion
Atari Games Corporation v. Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 31, 1989No. 88-5296PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
Opinion concurring in the judgment filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
By letter dated December 7, 1987, the Copyright Office reported its final action refusing to register a claim to copyright in the video game BREAKOUT, an audiovisual work created in 1975 by Atari, Inc., the predecessor of plaintiff-appellant Atari Games Corporation (Atari). The December 1987 letter, written on behalf of the United States Register of Copyrights (Register), stated that the video game in question “does not contain…
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