Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, US copyright law does not give an exemption for > temporary copies in working memory (although I could be wrong about that). > Here in Australia, our government (for once getting it right!) > *explicitly* gives such an exemption to our copyright law.
Actually, the U.S. does as well: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117 > (We also have the explicit right to make backup copies of legal software, > although Australian copyright law is firm that this is for backup ONLY, > and not a "backup *nudge nudge wink wink*". An analogous provision exists in U.S. law, indeed in the same chapter cited above. It also covers copies made in the course of repairing a computer. -- Karl A. Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { s/example/whoi/ } -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
