Quaid Software

Quaid Software, Ltd. was a software publisher based in Toronto, Ontario.

[1] The company's best known product was Copywrite which company president Robert McQuaid claimed was "for making legal backup copies of a protected program.

"[1] The company was the subject to a lawsuit claiming that the software was used for making illegal copies.

[1] The lawsuit was dismissed because Section 117 of the US Copyright Act specifically allows: The Court concluded that, because of federal copyright law, its provisions (Louisiana License Act) were preempted (by the US Copyright Act) and Vault's license agreement was unenforceable.

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