This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...

This article argues that competition and innovation in the software industry in the EU will be seriously undermined if the Court of Justice of the European Union in SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. holds that copyright protection for computer programs extends to the functional...

This powerpoint presentation was made at the Federal Judicial Academy Islamabad to Civil Judges/Judicial Magistrates from all over Pakistan on the subject. Software infringement and internet piracy are now worldwide phenomenon and no country on the globe is saved from its scourges. Judiciary has...

After 20 years of silence, two recent references from the Czech Republic (Bezpečnostní softwarová asociace, Case C-393/09) and from the United Kingdom (SAS Institute, Case C-406/10) touch upon several questions which are fundamental for the extent of copyright protection for software under...

This article discusses how the functional aspects of software should be accounted for in applying copyright's fair use doctrine. Copyright provides an incentive for authors to produce creative works, by giving them an exclusive right to make and distribute copies of their work. The fair use...

This study provides that copyright exhaustion serves an important social function of reducing the cost of information costs. Without it, buyers will be required to waste time and resources inquiring about their ability to resell copyrighted work. Because resale rights are generally regarded as...

Taxation of cross-border payments in respect of software has been a controversial subject with the law yet to be settled in India. This can be seen from the number of contradictory and contrasting decisions on software in the last couple of years. Though largely the debate has been on the End...