About the Book
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Computers and intellectual property: overview of intellectual property rights - copyright law, patent law, the law of confidence, the law of designs, trade marks and passing-off, semiconductor regulations; copyright basics 16 - fundamentals, remedies for infringment of copyright, moral rights, dealing with copyright; computers and copyright 24 - computer programs, originality and storage, ancillary materials, restricted acts for computer programs, back-up copies of computer programs, "look and feel" and the limits of copyright protection, employees and freelance programmers, devices to overcome coy-protection; computer generated works 43 - works created using a computer, works created by a computer, intermediate works; the law of confidence - quality of confidence, obligation of confidence, remedies for breach of confidence; patent law - basic requirements, new invention, inventive step, industrial application, exclusions from patentability, infringment, defences and remedies, miscellaneous; trade marks and passing-off - trade marks, what is a trade mark?, the requirements for registering a trade mark, obstacles and objections to registration, passing-off, basic requirements for a passing-off action, the misrepresentation, common fields of activity, remedies for passing-off; designs - registered designs, the new design right; semiconductor products - topography right, remedies; international implications and sumamry - international implications, summary, practical suggestions. Part 2 Computer contracts: introduction to computer contracts; fundamentals of computer contracts - nature of the contract, negligence, product liability, breach of contract, misrepresentation, exemption clauses; contracts for writing software - definitions, licence agreement, the contract price, specification, time for completion, maintenance of an enhancements to the software, escrow, copyright and other intellectual property rights, liability, arbitration, other terms; licence agreements for "off-the-shelf" software - misrepresentation and dealers' promises, back-up coping of programs, integration and upgrades, training and support; contract betwen software author and publisher - payment, training, maintenance and defects, confidentiality, liability; hardware contracts - performance, maintenance and upgrades, legal controls; summary and checklist. Part 3 Computers and crime: introduction - the prosecution of criminal offences; computer fraud - types of computer fraud, fraud offences, obtaining by deception, computer fraud is theft, other offences involving fraud; hacking - the unauthorized agenda of computer systems - the problem in perspective, the case of R v gold, offences under the theft act 1968, communications offences, data protection act 1984; damage to computer programs or data - criminal
