Software Copyright Law
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New technologies often create new forms of productivity and business as well as new forms of theft. Such is the case for computer software and the programmers and firms that develop and manufacture it. Many times software piracy may be accidental, such as a firm or individual not realizing that sharing one copy of software between many computers on a server without purchasing licenses for each computer using it is illegal. Yet, more often the theft is intentional in an effort to reduce budgets or avoid paying for software altogether. Software is considered and intellectual property and its manufacturers and developers are protected under the Federal Copyright Act (Title 17 of the U.S. Code). In Section 106 of that Act, software companies are legally granted the “exclusive rights to reproduce the copyrighted work” (Software 1). Typical software license agreement violations of the Federal Copyright Act include things like copying a corporation or university owned software program onto privately owned computers. The reverse of this is also a violation and so is copying a single copy of software onto more than one machine without purchasing more licenses. Putting a single copy of a software program onto a WAN (wide area network) server or LAN (local area network) server are also violations of the copyright law if additional licenses are not bought. The Federal Copyright Act is specific in its wording with regard to these types of soft
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osses in China were $595 million, with only 6% of the software purchased legally. The country with the highest rate of legal use is the United States, at 65 percent. But the U.S., by virtue of the size of its market, is also the league leader in losses, which total $2.3 billion for 1993…Europe has a 61 percent piracy rate, followed by the 11 countries in the Middle East, Africa, India and Pakistan region, with an 85 percent piracy rate, Latin America with an 83 percent piracy rate, and Asia with a 79 percent piracy rate.
(Maize 1)
BSA and U.S. officials have lobbied to have a European Community Software Directive become reinforced by national legislation according to provisions of world trade legislation like GATT. It has also suggested that one route that needs pursued is a tighter cooperation among software industry copyright holders and public law enforcement agencies. Stronger penalties for illegal software copying were another recommendation of the BSA study. Calls have also been made for legislation which provides for full recovery of costs in legal suits brought against copyright infringers. There is good reason for calls for stronger measures to reduce copyright software piracy. The reason is the high revenue l
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