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Old November 8th, 2005, 04:45 PM
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Default Re: OT: Software copyright law?

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NullAshton said:
On some licenses, they no longer give you the ability to make a backup. The copy on the origional CD is all you get.
Licenses could never "give" you the right to make copies. That is a right (still) guaranteed by fair use laws. Content owners have no ability to take that right away without getting Congress to change the law. The DMCA makes it illegal to break copy protetion, but it did not take away the right to make backup copies...
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