You are liable for damages resulting from illegal duplication of software. As a condition of using the institution's computer equipment, I agree not to use the equipment to duplicate copyrighted software, whether it is my personal copy or is owned by the institution. I assume liability for any copyright infringements caused by me. It is convenient to load one program disk into several computers for simultaneous use of the program. It is unclear if this is legal, but the ICCE Software Guidelines suggest that this should not be allowed.
Licenses authorizing multiple loading are available from some publishers.
Licenses are required to use software on networks. Database Downloading Downloading involves copying a data transmission from database utility to a user's computer. It also enables the searcher to clean up the data before printing a copy. Databases are copyrightable and copying from a database to a computer appears to be a copyright infringement. The copyright owners generally accept temporary downloading as a fair use as long as only one report is printed and the data is erased after printing the report.