The Text in the Machine.
This article is a case study in the history of software copyright in the United States from 1974 to 1978. It focuses on the work of a group called the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works. CONTU, as this group was known, faced the problem of choosing which ontology of s...
| Publicado en: | Technology & Culture Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 753 - 780 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Oct2016
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