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Examples of Things Allowed Under the License Agreement
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single user for research or other personal uses.
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or report being prepared for private use, provided that appropriate
attribution is provided.
- Use in educational setting for providing images or text
as a part of a lecture.
- Installation and use on a local area network operated
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of simultaneous users does not exceed the number of copies of the CD-ROM
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- Creating copies, electronic or other, of text or images
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- Copying the image or text retrieval software for any
use other than displaying the information contained on this CD-ROM.
- Disassembling, or otherwise altering, the executable
code of the image or text retrieval software.
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