Software Copyright Law

Author : Van Lindberg
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449391102

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Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg Pdf

"Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter. Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open source development and the GPL. This book answers questions such as: How do open source and intellectual property work together? What are the most important intellectual property-related issues when starting a business or open source project? How should you handle copyright, licensing and other issues when accepting a patch from another developer? How can you pursue your own ideas while working for someone else? What parts of a patent should be reviewed to see if it applies to your work? When is your idea a trade secret? How can you reverse engineer a product without getting into trouble? What should you think about when choosing an open source license for your project? Most legal sources are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read. Intellectual Property and Open Source is a friendly, easy-to-follow overview of the law that programmers, system administrators, graphic designers, and many others will find essential.

Author : Ashwin van Rooijen
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041131935

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The Software Interface Between Copyright and Competition Law by Ashwin van Rooijen Pdf

The success of computer programs often depends on their ability to interoperate ' or communicate ' with other systems. In proprietary software development, however, the need to protect access to source code, including the interface information

Author : M. J. Salone
Publisher : NOLO
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015012665959

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How to Copyright Software by M. J. Salone Pdf

This work for the layman explains how to get a copyright for software and computer output. The book discusses object and source code deposits, copyright laws and CD-ROMS, registration of computer games, copyright protection for databases, and many related topics.

Author : Bainbridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Professional
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1845924266

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Software Copyright Law by Bainbridge Pdf

"Software Copyright Law includes all the significant developments in the law relating to copyright protection of computer software. It deals in particular with computer programs, databases and other works stored on computer and covers issues on the growing software piracy market.The new edition takes account of major developments including the Database Directive, a Government White Paper on the importance of rights in information, European developments in copyright law. "

Author : Lawrence E. Rosen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114284354

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Open Source Licensing by Lawrence E. Rosen Pdf

"I have studied Rosen's book in detail and am impressed with its scope and content. I strongly recommend it to anybody interested in the current controversies surrounding open source licensing." --John Terpstra, Samba.org; cofounder, Samba-Team "Linux and open source software have forever altered the computing landscape. The important conversations no longer revolve around the technology but rather the business and legal issues. Rosen's book is must reading for anyone using or providing open source solutions." --Stuart Open Source Development Labs A Complete Guide to the Law of Open Source for Developers, Managers, and Lawyers Now that open source software is blossoming around the world, it is crucial to understand how open source licenses work--and their solid legal foundations. Open Source Initiative general counsel Lawrence Rosen presents a plain-English guide to open source law for developers, managers, users, and lawyers. Rosen clearly explains the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing, carefully reviews today's leading licenses, and helps you make the best choices for your project or organization. Coverage includes: Explanation of why the SCO litigation and other attacks won't derail open source Dispelling the myths of open source licensing Intellectual property law for nonlawyers: ownership and licensing of copyrights, patents, and trademarks "Academic licenses" BSD, MIT, Apache, and beyond The "reciprocal bargain" at the heart of the GPL Alternative licenses: Mozilla, CPL, OSL and AFL Benefits of open source, and the obligations and risks facing businesses that deploy open source software Choosing the right license: considering business models, product architecture, IP ownership, license compatibility issues, relicensing, and more Enforcing the terms and conditions of open source licenses Shared source, eventual source, and other alternative models to open source Protecting yourself against lawsuits

Author : David I. Bainbridge
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015028440256

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Software Copyright Law by David I. Bainbridge Pdf

Software Copyright Law provides expert guidance on all the significant developments in UK law relating to copyright protection of computer software. This new edition also considers the trend of US cases in relation to "look & feel" & covers issues on the growing software piracy market in the UK. Issues are brought to life using fictional examples to illustrate points of principles & covering areas such as copyright, confidentiality, contract & patents, with an analysis of the main US & UK cases. Thoroughly updated, the book takes account of new European developments including the Database Directive & a UK Government White Paper on the importance of rights in information copyright law. The book also examines a number of recent cases e.g. Microsoft v Electro-Wide & Creative Technology v Aztec.

Author : Gerardo Con Daz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Computer software
ISBN : 9780300228397

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Software Rights by Gerardo Con Daz Pdf

A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. He shows that securing patent protection for computer programs has been a central concern among computer developers since the 1950s and traces how patents and copyrights became inseparable from software development in the Internet age. Software patents, he argues, facilitated the emergence of software as a product and a technology, enabled firms to challenge each other's place in the computing industry, and expanded the range of creations for which American intellectual property law provides protection. Powerful market forces, aggressive litigation strategies, and new cultures of computing usage and development transformed software into one of the most controversial technologies ever to encounter the American patent system.

Author : Canada. Industry Canada,Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Copyright
ISBN : MINN:31951D01158918N

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A Guide to Copyrights by Canada. Industry Canada,Canadian Intellectual Property Office Pdf

Author : Rod Dixon
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1580537200

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Open Source Software Law by Rod Dixon Pdf

This unique and comprehensive resource provides you with a broad introduction to the area of software licensing in the information age. The book helps you to understand the basic philosophy and key issues of open source software development and offers expert guidance on how to draft an open source license. Drawing on the author's legal and technical background, this invaluable reference explains the legal framework that has been developed to support the increasingly popular internet-based open source and free software community.

Author : Australia. Copyright Law Review Committee,Ian Fitzhardinge Sheppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Copyright
ISBN : 0642208301

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Computer Software Protection by Australia. Copyright Law Review Committee,Ian Fitzhardinge Sheppard Pdf

Author : Jisuk Woo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135694821

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Copyright Law and Computer Programs by Jisuk Woo Pdf

This book analyzes U.S. federal cases on the copyright protection of computer software programs, to examine the role of communication in legal decision making process. It is the first to apply Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration to analyze law in a systematic and empirical way. Previous studies considered law to be independent, objective and neutral, and even those that considered social structures and actors focused on economic and political factors. Employing the framework of the author, the work, and the use, this study attempts to show how relationships and struggles of the parties are actually manifested through communication, and how the strategic communication of the parties influences the structural environment of copyright law. There has been a long-running debate over whether and how the copyright law, evolved from the era of the print technology, should be applied to computer programs, a new work of authorship. Contrary to some cautionary arguments that modern copyright law tends to protect copyright holders while disregarding authors' rights, the struggle between developers and non-developers, rather than between copyright holders and non-copyright holders, was clearly manifested in legal arguments. The construct of authorship has been modified, yet remained central in copyright discourse. On the other hand, the concept of the use, despite the significance of users in copyright regime, has yet to be developed to play an important role in the legal arguments. Moreover, the factor of whether the party was a developing entity, was found to be a single most important factor influencing the courts' decisions. But only when the party could successfully present itself as the one involved with developing activities, the court was more likely to accept its argument than the other party's. Therefore, it was the legitimacy gained by communicating the nature of the party, rather than the nature of the party itself, that made the difference in the ways the courts made decisions. This book presents how, in this process of strategic communication, the structure of copyright law was reproduced and transformed.

Author : Josef Drexl
Publisher : Wiley-VCH
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015037331132

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What is Protected in a Computer Program by Josef Drexl Pdf

The first few years of the 90s have been extremely important for the development of software copyright both in the United States and Europe. In the United States, major decisions redefined the idea/expression dichotomy in different cases. In Europe, countries are still in the process of harmonizing their national laws with the EC Software Directive. The study compares traditional and evolving copyright standards as applied to computer programs on both sides of the Atlantic. It may well be said that recent case law has brought America closer to Europe. On the other hand, American experience turns out to be a useful guideline for distinguishing between the concepts of idea and expression in the sense of the software directive.

Author : D. C. Toedt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Computer software
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063780105

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The Law and Business of Computer Software by D. C. Toedt Pdf

This looseleaf volume offers a collection of more than 30 articles and papers dealing with every aspect of the field, and how it affects your clients. Copyrights, trade secrets, patents, mask works, artificial intelligence, and other topics, are discussed.

Author : National Research Council,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Steering Committee for Intellectual Property Issues in Software
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309043441

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Intellectual Property Issues in Software by National Research Council,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Steering Committee for Intellectual Property Issues in Software Pdf

Software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy. This book captures a wide range of perspectives on the topic from industry, academe, and government, drawing on information presented at a workshop and forum.

Author : Mark A. Lemley,Peter S. Menell,Robert P. Merges,Pamela Samuelson
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 1724 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454859895

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Software and Internet Law by Mark A. Lemley,Peter S. Menell,Robert P. Merges,Pamela Samuelson Pdf

Among the first casebooks in the field, Software and Internet Law presents clear and incisive writing, milestone cases and legislation, and questions and problems that reflect the authors' extensive knowledge and classroom experience. Technical terms are defined in context to make the text accessible for students and professors with minimal background in technology, the software industry, or the Internet. Always ahead of the curve, the Fourth Edition adds coverage and commentary on developing law, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's Safe Harbor, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Stored Communications Act. Hard-wired features of Software and Internet Law include: consistent focus on how lawyers service the software industry and the Internet broad coverage of all aspects of U.S. software and internet law;with a focus on intellectual property, licensing, and cyberlaw The Fourth Edition responds to this fast-changing field with coverage of : the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's Safe Harbor the Electronic Communications Privacy Act the Stored Communications Act Hot News; Misappropriation Civil Uses of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act