Does Copyright Law Need to Be Reformed?

The author discusses why the U.S. copyright law needs to be reformed. She suggests copyright laws are incomprehensible and biased toward the copyright industry. She comments that copyright laws did not take into account computer programs, forcing computer designers to resolve problems through litiga...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 10; pp. 19 - 24
Autor principal: Samuelson, Pamela
Formato: Editorial
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2007
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        Copyright of software
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      ab: The author discusses why the U.S. copyright law needs to be reformed. She suggests copyright laws are incomprehensible and biased toward the copyright industry. She comments that copyright laws did not take into account computer programs, forcing computer designers to resolve problems through litigation. She discusses how a change to U.S. laws decreased access to works in the public domain. She comments that a statute protecting the right to reproduce works in a computer's random access memory (RAM) should be passed. She suggests requiring renewals of copyright claims and that standards to determine if copyright infringement has occurred should be clarified.
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