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Revision of the Copyright Law

something they would otherwise be free to do, the right to prohibit thenm from copying and distributing material which has been published. A patent constitutes a truer analogy. In common law, if an invention can be used and still kept secret by the Those who introduced the medical research bill had to make a hard decision not to accept a compromiiise ot the original specifications, including an...

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet

Should Not Be Protected by Copyright Law

Until Lotus and Apple sued their competitors for copyright infringement, software user interface designers did not think much about whether intellectual property law might impose some constraints on their design decisions. Even those who knew that copyrights were available to protect software probably understood this to mean simply that a person would have to write his or her own code to develo...

A Question in the Law of Copyright

In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, in U. S, 53 (1884), the question was presented, to what extent Congress was within its constitutional powers in attempting to grant exclusive rights to the "author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any . , photograph." Rev. St. § 4952. The subject-matter of the case was a photograph of Oscar Wilde, who was specially posed for the occasion. The argu...

Innovation in UK Law

I n 2 0 0 6 t h e N P I A ( t h e n k n o w n a s Po l i c e I T O r g a n i s a t i o n ) p r o v i d e d f u n d i n g f o r a p i l o t p h a s e o f t h e t e c h n o l o g y, e n a b l i n g t h e f o r c e t o e s t a b l i s h a f o r m a l p r o j e c t . M o r e r e c e n t l y, i n 2 0 0 7 , t h e U K g o v e r n m e n t m a n d a t e d m o b i l e d e v i c e s b e c o m e a f o c u ...