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Softwars: The Legal Battles for Control of the Global Software Industry explains why the future of the computer industry depends on the nature and extent of intellectual property protection for the software that controls computer hardware. The softwars it discusses are the confrontations taking place in the courtroom, in the legislative chambers and in professional symposia around the world in which the scope of intellectual property protection for computer software is being debated and, in some cases, determined. In a highly readable and entertaining series of essays, the author explains the influences of clones, hackers, vendors of proprietary systems, vendors of open systems, software patents, copyrights and trade secrets on the evolution of the industry. No other book to date has provided either as lucid a description of the major litigation involving software protection or as cogent an analysis of the economic and strategic consequences of that litigation.

Softwars is divided into five parts, each consisting of two or more essays. In Part I, the author discusses the nature of computer programs and the history of intellectual property protection for computer programs. Part II deals with the look and feel issue; it explains what constitutes infringement of rights in screen displays and other aspects of user interfaces, and the importance of the issue. Part III concerns the practice known as reverse engineering of software; who does it, why, and what the legal and economic consequences are. In Part IV, the reader is led to the boundaries of the legal debate, where the limits of the law are being tested. Part V is the author's conclusion and prognostications for the future of the computer industry and the law. Anyone interested in the intersection of law and technology, and particularly those involved in the computer industry, will find Softwars valuable and compelling reading.



Table of Contents:

Preface
At the War College
A Brief Discourse on the Spoils of War: The Nature of That Which Is Being Contested
Aerial Reconnaisance: The First Two Decades of the Softwars
Fear and Loathing, Look and Feel
Gaining Enlightenment from the Lotus Sutra
After the Fall: The Weak Protectionists Regroup
"You Could Look It Up": Why Copyright Law Protects the Yellow Pages But Not the White Pages
Never-Ending Stories: Ashton Tate v. Fox, Apple v. Microsoft and the Future of User Interfaces
Heavy Artillery: The Patent Laws as Armaments in the Softwars
Engineers of Monotony
Beyond Arbitration: Fujitsu and IBM Take Their Show on the Road
At Sea Over Reverse Engineering: The Bonito Boats Case
Antipodean Logic: Autodesk v. Martin Dyason
"Been Down so Long it Looks Like Up to Me": IBM v. AMI
The Lady Vanishes: An Academic Ventures into the Real World and Retreats in Dismay
Thinking about the Unthinkable
Circuit Theory: Nonliteral Copying by Any Other Name
The Outer Limits: Laseroomb v. Reynolds
Revenge of the Nerds: Guerillas, Terrorists, Peaceniks and the Legion of Doom
"All that Glitters": Nintendo v. Atari, the Nightmare Scenario
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: "Open Systems", Truce or Consequences?
Conclusion for Now
"The One Who Controls the Software. . . . ": A Meditation on the Future of the Softwars



About the Author :
ANTHONY L. CLAPES is Assistant General Counsel at IBM, responsible for managing litigation matters, including intellectual property ligitation. Mr. Clapes is a frequent lecturer at seminars on intellectual property protection for software. In 1991, he was named one of the leading high-tech intellectual property lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal. He is the author of a seminal book on copyright law and computer programs, Software, Copyright and Competition: The Look and Feel of the Law (Quorum, 1989).

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?One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections.?-Library Journal ?Softwars is a lively account of the development of intellectual property law regarding computer software . . . Clapes is remarkably successful at making a technical subject approachable.?-Yale Journal of International Law "Softwars is a lively account of the development of intellectual property law regarding computer software . . . Clapes is remarkably successful at making a technical subject approachable."-Yale Journal of International Law "One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections."-Library Journal


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  • ISBN-13: 9780899305974
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Legal Battles for Control of the Global Software Industry
  • ISBN-10: 0899305970
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 336


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