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043654P.pdf   09/01/2005  Davidson & Assoc.  v.  Internet Gateway
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-3654
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Bye, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - copyright law. State law claim that defendants violated the 
   end user license and terms of usage agreements contained in 
   plaintiffs' game software was not preempted by the Copyright Act; by 
   agreeing to the End User License Agreement and Terms of Use 
   provisions contained in the games, defendants expressly relinquished 
   their rights to reverse engineer the games; defendants' reverse 
   engineering violated the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking 
   provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; defendants were not 
   entitled to assert the interoperability exception defense provided in the 
   Act.