R.S., c. C-42 Copyright Act 1 Subsection 41.12(1) of the  Copyright Act  is replaced by the following: Interoperability 41.12 (1) Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who  (a) owns a computer program or a copy of one, or has a licence to use the program or copy, and who circumvents a technological protection measure that protects that program or copy for the purpose of obtaining information  and allowing  the person to make the program  or a device in which it is embedded  interoperable  with  any other computer program,  device or component; or (b) manufactures a product and circumvents a technological protection measure that protects a computer program embedded in another product for the sole purpose of allowing the person to make the computer program, or a device in which it is embedded, interoperable with the manufactured product.