Piracy
Piracy
In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and
international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry,
with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show
that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated
overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy
losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software
Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the
business software in the United States was obtained illegally, …
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…Associates which controlled the running of applications on IBM
mainframes. The court rejected Whelan=s premise that a computer
program embodies one function because programs are made up of
sub-routines that contain their own idea. The court recognized this
would narrow the scope of software copyright protection and found this
in accordance with Congressional intent of computer programs with
copyright. This resulted in why currently software copyright is not as
broad as it once was.
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