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The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » Should Computer Software Receive Copyright Protection?

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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  • garym

    4 years ago

    This suit claims that software copyright protection is unconstitutionally vague, yet claims that patents provide a better alternative. If this suit succeeds, we might as well forget about having a software industry; legitimate code will be plagiarized without protection, while developers of new code will have to search through an impossible-to-negotiate maze of patents. (Try reading any software patent and figuring out what it says.) There will have to be four lawyers to every programmer.

    What's Ahronian's purpose with this insane lawsuit? To give employment to a horde of patent lawyers, perhaps?
  • James Gattuso

    4 years ago

    Adam -- It doesn't seem Ahronian raises a real "case or controversy" for the courts -- he's just asking for a declarary judgment by the courts without any specific dispute at hand. Whatever the merits, the courts will throw this out until there's an actual disute with an actual patent at hand.

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