Intellectual Property in Computing: (How) Should Software Be Protected? An Industry Perspective
The future of the software industry is today being shaped in the courtroom. Most discussions of intellectual property to date, however, have been frames as debates about how the existing law --- promulgated long before the computer revolution --- should be applied to software. This memo is a transcr...
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| description | The future of the software industry is today being shaped in the courtroom. Most discussions of intellectual property to date, however, have been frames as debates about how the existing law --- promulgated long before the computer revolution --- should be applied to software. This memo is a transcript of a panel discussion on what forms of legal protection should apply to software to best serve both the industry and society in general. After addressing that question we can consider what laws would bring this about. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/66072019-04-12T08:31:37Z Intellectual Property in Computing: (How) Should Software Be Protected? An Industry Perspective Ernst, Michael D. The future of the software industry is today being shaped in the courtroom. Most discussions of intellectual property to date, however, have been frames as debates about how the existing law --- promulgated long before the computer revolution --- should be applied to software. This memo is a transcript of a panel discussion on what forms of legal protection should apply to software to best serve both the industry and society in general. After addressing that question we can consider what laws would bring this about. 2004-10-08T20:34:21Z 2004-10-08T20:34:21Z 1992-05-01 AIM-1369 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6607 en_US AIM-1369 3732954 bytes 2919025 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf |
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