Software Licensing and Piracy-
Software Licensing and 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 …
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copyright. This resulted in why currently software copyright is not as
broad as it once was.
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