A New view of intellectual property and Software

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 21-30

  Davis, Randall ^a,b   Samuelson, Pamela ^c   Kapor, Mitchell ^a   Reichman, Jerome ^d  

^a Department of Nucl Engineering

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Cornell Law School ^*

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIABILITY RULES; MARKET PRESERVATION; PROGRAM BEHAVIOR; PROGRAM METAPHORS; SOURCE CODE TEXT;

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COPYRIGHTS; COSTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MARKETING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STANDARDS;

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

EID: 0030109195     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/227234.227237     Document Type: Article

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