Can I burn Lion OS X to disk?

In my family we have three MacBooks and an iMac. For that reason I would like to know if I can download Lion OS X from one of these computers and afterwards burn it to disk and install it to the other computers. Do I have the ability to do that or will I have to buy it four times?

Here's how...
Open App Store. Sign in.
Press your Option key and while keeping it pressed, left click on 'Purchases' at the top of the App Store screen.
Under your purchase, look to the right of 'OS X Lion'. If Step 2 worked, the button on the right should say 'Install'.
Click Install. Let the download finish.
When you see the window open for installing the download, open Finder, navigate to Applications and you should see the OS X Lion Installation App.
Right click on the OS X Lion Installation App and select 'Show Package Contents'.
Navigate to the SharedSupport folder. You should see a filename of InstallESD.dmg.
Copy the InstallESD.dmg to your desktop
Close the window that's waiting for you to install OS X Lion. Not needed anymore.
Launch Disk Utility and click the Burn button
Select the InstallESD.dmg file from your desktop as the image to burn. Insert a blank DVD and wait for the the image to be burned

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