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In his letter headlined 'Officials sending mixed messages to public' (Sunday Morning Post, April 22), Roy Grubb asked us to clarify some points.
Permanently storing a Web page on hard disk, or printing it out without the copyright owner's permission, may be permitted as 'fair dealing' in copyright law if you do it for your own research and private study.
How do you tell whether this sort of printing-out or permanent storage for research and private study is fair? The guidelines are:
You only make a single copy.
You do the copying yourself, for your own use (that is, not for distribution to others). But it is all right to ask an employee (for example, a secretary) to do the copying for you.
You do not copy too extensively.
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