“Suppose you purchase a program stored on a CD. doing any of the following actions without authorization of the copyright holder is a violation of copyright law, EXCEPT one A)Copying a program onto a CD to sell to someone else B)Preloading a program onto the hard disk of a computer being sold C) Distributing a program over the Internet D) Transfer a copy of the program from the CD to a hard disk

EXPERT ANSWER

Copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner.

option A, B, C will lead to copyright infringement as someone else’s work is being sold or distributed without the permission of the owner.

option D is which just copying the program from CD to hard disk is only keeping the program to self and transfering the program from one storage to another storage and is not being sold.

So, the correct option is

D) Transfer a copy of the program from the CD o a hard disk.