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Contracts, Copyright And Preemption In A Digital World, I Trotter Hardy
Contracts, Copyright And Preemption In A Digital World, I Trotter Hardy
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
Copyright is designed to provide some form of protection against unauthorized use of original informational materials. The rapid shift of information production and distribution to electronic form, with its corresponding ease of copying, naturally makes copyright-dependent industries nervous. Much talk in the news and on the "net" these days is about the future of copyright law, a law developed in an age of print and now perhaps too tied to that medium to have ready application to today's information technology.
Overreaching Provisions In Software License Agreements, Michael Liberman
Overreaching Provisions In Software License Agreements, Michael Liberman
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
Historically, software license agreements emerged as the most popular means of protection of proprietary rights in computer software. As a common form of contract and trade secret protection, software licenses coexist with other forms of intellectual property rights such as patent and copyright. The importance of these forms of protection has recently increased. Where the licensor fails to consider the implications of the relation between these forms of protection, the licensor's attempts to maximize contractual protection while restricting the licensee's activities regarding the licensed software may result in overreaching. Under these circumstances, a court may invalidate the license agreement in …
Interactive Computing: Joint Work Status For User And Programmer, Michelle Lynn Birnbaum
Interactive Computing: Joint Work Status For User And Programmer, Michelle Lynn Birnbaum
Touro Law Review
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