# Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 50BA: Observing, studying and testing of computer programs


(1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to observe, study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program if he does so while performing any of the acts of loading, displaying, running, transmitting or storing the program which he is entitled to do.
(2) Where an act is permitted under this section, it is irrelevant whether or not there exists any term or condition in an agreement which purports to prohibit or restrict the act (such terms being, by virtue of section 296A, void).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/50BA (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-50BA
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