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Question: Assess the impact of digital information, particularly that of computer programs, on Intellectual Property Law. What can be and has been done to meet the demands of this dynamic new area of law.
Answer: This essay shall focus on the impact of Digital Information, and particularly that of computer programs, on Intellectual Property law, and what can be and has been done to meet the demands of this dynamic new area of law. The essay will consider how computer programs have gone from being termed as a “literary work” under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) and worthy of no further protection than a Copyright, in both the UK and abroad, through to the judgment in the leading US case of Computer Associates v Altai , in which judges stated “Generally we think that copyright registration, with its indiscriminating availability – is not ideally suited to deal with the highly dynamic technology of computer science… patent registration, with its exacting up-front novelty a......(short extract)
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Details: - Mark: 63% | Course: Intellectual Property Law | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2558 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: February 20, 2009 | Coursework ID: 391
