The software license unveiled : how legislation by license controls software access

Nearly every use of a computer is subject not only to public intellectual property law, but also to the privately-written law of the software license. Although the United States has only one Copyright Act and one set of patent laws, there exist thousands of different licenses - to which millions of...

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Main Author: Phillips, Douglas E.
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2009
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition:1
Subjects:
Computer programs
Computer science
COMPUTERS
Copyright
Copyright > Computer programs
Copyright licenses
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property law
LAW
Law and legislation
Open source software
Open source software > Law and legislation
ISBN:9780195341874, 0195341872
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Summary:Nearly every use of a computer is subject not only to public intellectual property law, but also to the privately-written law of the software license. Although the United States has only one Copyright Act and one set of patent laws, there exist thousands of different licenses - to which millions of computer users legally bind themselves by the click of a mouse, usually without reading anything but the word "agree." How do these proliferating but largely unread licenses affect access to software, one of the economy's most valuable resources? In The Software License Unveiled, visionary practitioner Doug Phillips aims to illuminate the unseen law of software to which the software license gives rise.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780195341874
0195341872
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780195341874.001.0001