Re: Is it legal?

> Hi everyone. I have a generic question:
>
> Is it legal (under the Fair Use laws or in any other way) to install a
> piece of software on all computers within network for one or two days
> for the sake of demonstrating it and comparing it with another piece
> of software? (Ex: Installing MS Word to show it to all network users
> and to compare it with WordPerfect that's already on the network)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitriy

    ***If*** it could be installed in such a way so as to prevent downloading and copying by those enjoying the demonstration, I would think this would be a quintessential fair use (and one that the MS folks should be really excited about, given that it's free advertising that should encourage, rather than displace, sales in the market).

    Paul Heald
    Associate Professor of Law
    University of Georgia
    <heald[_at_]jd.lawsch.uga.edu> Received on Thu Oct 05 1995 - 16:05:07 GMT