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Subject: Re: A-max - no drive...
Summary: Borrow away
Keywords: copyright safe
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Date: 11 Mar 90 01:51:17 GMT
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Reply-To: conklin@frith.UUCP (Terry Conklin)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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There are certain people on the net who are so anti-piracy that it
becomes a religious fervor, and, like Pat Robertson et al., they will
say anything, accurate _or not_, to back up their point.

Many packages on the market DO specifically make provisions for
"borrowing." Usually, the copyright rules will make a reference to their
license allowing you access "like a book." IE you can lend it to
someone, and they have sole use of it.

In no way does the copyright law restrict one from borrowing, lending, 
selling, etc. any product. Copyright does cover unauthorized
duplication. Only if a product's specifies that transferral is
restricted are you limited, and even that is of some question legally.

Terry Conklin
conklin@egr.msu.edu
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