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estimad@s CC-listeros,

este artículo puede ser interesante para los más legalísticamente inclinados
entre nosotros.  la autora sugiere que las patentes de software pueden haber
tenido sentido en los 90, pero ahora sólo bloquean la innovación.  saludos,

--hernan
 Prof.Dr. Hernán Astudillo, Depto. de Informática    | hernan+inf.utfsm.cl
 Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Av.España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile
 URL: www.inf.utfsm.cl/~hernan | Fono: +56(32)654655 | Fax: +56(32)797513


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"Revisiting the Manifesto and Rolling Back Computer Software Copyrights"
JACQUELINE DEBORAH LIPTON
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=785105

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-28
August 17, 2005

ABSTRACT:
 During the 1990s, courts and legislatures worldwide extended
 copyright protection to software code as a form of literary
 work. At the time this was understandable given the perceived
 need for legal protection to promote innovation in a fledgling
 industry in the wake of the personal computer revolution.
 However, many criticized this approach as paradoxically
 contributing to both over-protection and under-protection in the
 computer software industry. The ensuing decade has shown these
 criticisms to have been well-founded, both due to concerns that
 were apparent at the time, and now to more recent developments
 in programming methodology and digital copyright law. This
 article suggests that there is today a pressing need to revisit
 the question of copyright protection for computer software with
 a view to abolishing such protection. Factors that contribute to
 this suggestion include: (a) important developments in
 programming methodology in recent years including
 object-oriented approaches to programming; (b) the advent of
 effective contractual and digital rights management ("DRM")
 measures to protect computer code; and, (c) the impact of the
 Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") on digital copyright
 law and practice. This article suggests that copyright
 protection for software code is no longer necessary in the 21st
 century and potentially chills innovation. It should therefore
 be discontinued. Other more appropriate legal and technological
 protections are now available for software code outside the
 copyright context.