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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (rjb)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Copyright-`Fair Use' Clause
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 18:12:12 EST
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I'm not a lawyer and can't discuss the "Fair Use" clause, but
as far as the High School Teacher and the Software copying,
he/she may have a problem for a different reason.

Most of the commercial software packages I have handled have
a licensing agreement which you implicitly agree to abide by
if you break the sealed package with the diskettes inside.
(Lawyers please comment on whether that is going to survive
a court challenge!)

One of the terms of this license is that you can only make backup
copies of the diskettes for YOUR particular machine.  Copying the
diskettes and passing them around is a violation of the license
the software producer is granting to YOU and grounds for legal
nastiness.

Being ignorant of the "Fair Use" clause I can't speak authoritatively,
but I suspect that the licensing agreement would supersede it.

Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}