Add to ORKGDiscusses reasons for against copyrighting computer software programs. Reasons against include the potential for holding back scientific discoveries. Though the labor that goes into creating computer programs does seem to create property rights, the principle of free thought seems to override this right. The author discusses some of the problems that exist in copyright, trade secret, and patent law and discusses why these laws should be changed to discourage secrecy so they do not interfere with free thought.Presented at a meeting of the Collegiate Institute for Values and Science, University of Michigan, December 9, 198
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LL. M. (Intellectual Property Law)Throughout the history of mankind and the countless ages in which ...
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Software and databases are tools utilized daily by a large variety of people. Copyright, in conjunct...
Interest in the relationship between law and technology has been growing steadily (albeit slowly) ov...
Copyright has been used for over a hundred years to provide authors and artists with incentive to cr...
The author approaches the problem of software patents from the perspective of copyright, where the d...
The Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs offers an extensive and challen...
Computer programs are valuable property but how much should their creators be rewarded? According to...
There appear to be five basic systems employed to protect inventive and literary properties: patent...
Some programmers, especially those in an academic environment, believe that strong intellectual prop...
This Note presents the areas in which the copyrightability of a computer program has been questioned...
Currently available methods of legal protection are inappropriate for software. Because copyright la...
Most software developers do not oppose all software copyrights. There is broad support for basic cop...
This book is a study of how computer programs have challenged the thinking about and the actual use ...
Over the past few years, there has been an abundance of scholarship dealing with the appropriate sco...
LL. M. (Intellectual Property Law)Throughout the history of mankind and the countless ages in which ...
During the last decade a number of attempts have been made by the courts in the realm of patent and ...
Software and databases are tools utilized daily by a large variety of people. Copyright, in conjunct...
Interest in the relationship between law and technology has been growing steadily (albeit slowly) ov...
Copyright has been used for over a hundred years to provide authors and artists with incentive to cr...