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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: v11INF3:  Poll on copyrights
Message-ID: <1692@culdev1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 11:19:53 EST
Article-I.D.: culdev1.1692
Posted: Fri Oct 23 11:19:53 1987
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Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
| Could we lay this one to rest.  As I recall there is a provision in the
| copyright law about "normal and intended use" which allows for the load
| (copy) of a program into memory for execution.

There's a "computer program copyright act" that lists much of what is
"normal use".  If I remember correctly, loading a program into memory
for execution and making backups are both explicitly listed as "normal
use".

Dale