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Someone entitled to use a program. Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, a lawful user has a few rights that a contract cannot take away, such as making a back-up copy. Clause 7.2 respects them, and a question about them goes to your supervisor. Chapter 7 · see Object code
Explained in Chapter 7, Software, of IP Licensing.
The words “as the law allows a lawful user” respect rights that no contract can remove. A lawful user, someone entitled to use the program, has a few such rights under the 1988 Act, including making a back-up copy. This is a point to spot, not to advise on. If the factory's IT staff want to rely on one of these rights, ask Kofi Mensah.Read Chapter 7, Software →
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