Finding a Balance Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of Technological Change

Analyzes three important issues: the appropriate scope of copyright protection for computer software; patent protection of software-related inventions and algorithms; and complications facing libraries and commercial and private producers and users of digital information, including computer-based mixed media products, such as CD-ROM¹s and hypertext. Appendices include: selected computer hardware and software initiatives overseas, and the European Economic Community Treaty structure and function.Finding a Balance Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of Technological Change, with ISBN 9781568061634 and ISBN 1568061633.