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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1990
This background paper reviews copyright, patent, and trade secret protections as these issues are related to computer software. Topics discussed include current issues regarding legal protection for computer software including the necessity for defining intellectual property, determining what should or should not be protected, commerical piracy,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Copyrights, Intellectual Property, International Trade
