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From: hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Do *NOT* reveal or mention "hacking" information
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.230309.17901@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 23:03:09 GMT
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Reply-To: hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
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In article <1990Nov17.013618.6493@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
>In article <14476@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>In article <36465@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>>>you may disassemble it, because FEDERAL COPYRIGHT LAW SAYS YOU MAY.
>>
>>Reference, please.
>
>Fine.
>..."It is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer
>program to make  ...
>United States Copyright Code title 17, &117 (17 USC 117)
>
>Your right to deprotect a program is ensured by phrase 2).
>Your right to deprotect a program to use it  ...

  But that is not what this law says.  It says that some things are
not an infringement of the *Copyright Code*.  That does not in any
way make it a "right".  Note that you can enter into a contract
which gives you fewer rights (or more rights) than the Copyright
Code.  

  Also note that the Copyright Code portion quoted above refers to
the "owner of a copy" - and there may be a question of whether or not
you own a copy, or rather own a license to use a copy.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ