Download This PaperThe Uneasy Case for Software Copyrights Revisited
37 Pages Posted: 5 Nov 2012
Date Written: September 2011
Abstract
Forty years ago, Justice Stephen Breyer expressed serious doubts about the economic soundness of extending copyright protection to computer programs in his seminal article, "The Uneasy Case for Copyright." This article revisits "The Uneasy Case" to consider whether Breyer's skepticism about copyright for computer programs was warranted at the time, as well as whether the case for copyrighting computer programs has become easier over time.
Keywords: copyrights, software
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Samuelson, Pamela, The Uneasy Case for Software Copyrights Revisited (September 2011). George Washington Law Review, Vol. 79, 2010-2011, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2171451, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2171451
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