copyrighted forms

Dear Fellow Listmates,

Can a person who is authorized to use certain copyrighted forms take those forms and put them in a computer program that would generate those forms, create a database and use them under fair use?

Can that same person sell that newly created program to someone that is authorized to use those same forms?

Does not the newly created program belong to the person that developed it while the forms on paper without the use of a program still belong to the original copyright owner?

Would the original copyright owner if they wanted to used the program have to pay or be licensed by the person that wrote the program just like anyone else?

Would the answer be the same in all countries?

I would appreciate any insight.

Sincerely,

Greg Erkins

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<gerkins[_at_]gci.net> Received on Thu Oct 07 1999 - 16:00:38 GMT