"This book discusses the forensics of software copyright infringement, highlighting theoretical, functional, and procedural matters in the investigation of copyright infringement of software products, as well as the development of forensic technologies to detect and eliminate software...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Economic, Technical, and Legal Background -- Chapter 3. Impact of Automated Filtering on Right Holders’ Profits and Availability of Works on Platform -- Chapter 4. Design of Automated Filtering to Approach Efficient Error Avoidance -- Chapter 5. Improving...

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...