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From: stewartw@neptune.UUCP (Stewart Winter )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying
Message-ID: <183@neptune.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 17:02:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: neptune.183
Posted: Fri Jan 29 12:02:54 1988
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <14257@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <111@ritcv.UUCP> <1988Jan23.124134.16121@gpu.utcs.toronto.ed29 Jan 88 17:02:54 GMT
Reply-To: stewartw@neptune.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
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Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: Homestudy of Copyrighted Materials

In article <1988Jan23.124134.16121@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> lharris@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Leonard Harris) writes:
>In Canada it is now a criminal offence to copy software - I think the law
>should be ammended to allow proper evaluation of software with a reasonable
>return period.
     It was my understanding that the same things applied to software as
any copyrighted matter in that it is legal to copy something for home study.
This is what allows you to copy some pages from an encyclopedia in a library.
You should, therefore, be allowed to evaluate software legally.  

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