A key element of the copyright balance between creators and users is the doctrine of fair use (or dealing). Pursuant to this doctrine, use of a copyrighted work does not constitute infringement, so long as such use is “fair”. This paper explores the commonalities and differences between...

The first part of this article established and reviewed the policy basis for the radical departure from traditional intellectual property norms effected by the application of copyright law to the protection of technology in the form of computer programs. Computer programs are vulnerable to...

The 1985 amendments to the Japanese Copyright Act represent one of the more detailed statutory approaches to computer program protection now in existence, and it deals implicitly with a number of important problems that are already a source of dispute in other countries arising out of the...