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  • From: "Hernan Astudillo" <hernan AT inf.utfsm.cl>
  • To: "'CC-CL'" <cc-cl AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "'CC latam'" <cc-latam AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Cc-cl] artículo sobre patentes de software
  • Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:38:38 -0400

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.




  • [Cc-cl] artículo sobre patentes de software, Hernan Astudillo, 10/04/2005

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