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A critical review of proprietary software protection |
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| Authors: | Charles R. Franz Susan J. Wilkins Jonathan C. Bower |
| Affiliation: | Management Science Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;Management Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA;Adams, Arnold and Herring, Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to delineate primarily the present state of U.S. patents, copyright and trade secrets to the area of computer software. These three areas were chosen because the protection afforded by them is the greatest and because the application of these laws is pretty much unique as applied to software. A brief mention will be given to the law of contracts (contractual agreements), but an analysis of this area is not required because the application of the law of contracts to software is not unique. The paper ends with a brief look at the Doctrine of Unfair Competition, ethical considerations and finally presenting various proposals that have been made to help rectify the problem of proprietary software protection. |
| Keywords: | Computer program protection proprietary software protection computer software copyright infringement law of intellectual property copying computer programs software patenting Computer Software Protection Act machine readable copyright notice computer program copyright registration computer software trade secrets protection computer software contractual agreement |
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