There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding … ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed … or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of the focus group of software users on one hand and the official …

The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should … internet, the experience of the existing US software patent, and the identification of the interested parties.In 2013 EU … initiative supporting the EU software patent.The paper's objective is to prove that the patent could become the most effective …

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 … regressions.The findings show that the relevance of IPR channels in the fight against software piracy is noticeably contingent on …

"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 piracy"--Provided by publisher. …

This article discusses how the functional aspects of software should be accounted for in applying copyright's fair use …. Parts II and III apply this analysis to the fair use of copyrighted software. Software differs from other copyrighted works …, a software copyright holder potentially has more differentiated control over her work than an author that produces a …

This article describes the evolution of copyright protection for computer software. It shows how the courts … successfully deployed and adapted copyright doctrines in a manner that protected software against piracy while at the same time …