Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act of 1997

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act of 1997 - Amends Federal copyright law to provide that it is not a copyright infringement for the owner or lessee of a machine to make or authorize the making of a copy of a computer program solely by activation of a machine that lawfully contains an authorized copy of the program for purposes only of maintenance or repair of that machine, provided: (1) such new copy is used in no other manner and is destroyed immediately after the maintenance or repair is completed; and (2) any program or part thereof that is not necessary for machine activation is not accessed or used other than to make such new copy by activation of the machine.…