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Section 12Sec./Art. 12
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Section 185.1. of Republic Act No. 8293 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 185. Fair Use of a Copyrighted Work. 185.1. the fair use of a copyrighted work for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching including limited number of copies for classroom use, scholarship, research, and similar purposes is not an infringement of copyright. Decompilation, which is understood here to be the reproduction of the code and translation of the forms of a computer program to achieve the interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs may also constitute fair use under the criteria established by this section, to the extent that such decompilation is done for the purpose of obtaining the information necessary to achieve such interoperability.
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