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by charcircuit 942 days ago
The game is a copyrighted work, but so is the source code. The compiled code is a derivative work, and so is the decompiled code. Nintendo is not selling the source code, so arguing about sales in the market does not makes sense.
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The fair use analysis is done on the work as a whole, the Zelda game that's registered on the Copyright Office. Not the code only.