Software should not be patented, but the Intellectual Property Rights should be protected in another manner that does not entail a Copyright, Trademark or secrecy. A new form of protection should be created based on certain criteria such as useful life of a patent, incremental innovation, value...

This paper examines the application of the essential facilities doctrine (EFD) to copyrighted works. It attempts to address three contemporary issues. First, it offers reasons why copyright has become subject to competition law regulation under the essential facilities doctrine. Second, it makes...