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>Now that is an interesting one.
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>I would have thought that having several people watching a demo of a
>CD-rom, via NetMeeting, on their individual PCs analgous to their watching
>a projected display - or even all crowding round one PC and each "having a
>go"? The only difference is that would not all be the same room.
Well, if they're watching a demo, that might be described as 'training',
and many publishers take a slightly different view of that, rather than
actually using the product in anger as it were. Might still be worth
while checking though!
However, a case may still be made that, depending on what they're
actually doing, you're allowing multiple access to a product across a
network. I suppose a possible analogy might be that you're allowed to
rent a video to watch at home, but you cannot view it on an oilrig, or
other public/semi public place.
As for the 'crowding around one PC' that may be seen as one person using
one product on one pc, so that'd be ok.
In practice I doubt that publishers would really care that much, as long
as it was a demo/training session, so if I was going to criticise what
I've said it would be that I was being way too pedantic!
>Any lawyers out there? Is this another can of copyright worms?
Indeed! I'll be going to a meeting of the eIP (Electronic Information
Publishers) this week, so I'll ask them what they think, and report
back.
Phil.
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