Article provided by Timothy B. McCormack, Seattle Copyright Attorney working in area of copyright litigation, procurement and development. This article is a continuation in the series of Software Copyright articles.
Another copyright principle that limits the protection given to copyrighted works is the “merger doctrine.” Basically, the merger doctrine prevents any one person from having a monopoly over an idea when there...
Article provided by Timothy B. McCormack, Seattle Copyright Attorney working in area of copyright litigation, procurement and development. This article is a continuation in the series of Software Copyright articles.
The “idea/expression dichotomy” refers to a principle in copyright law that ideas are not protectable. Instead, copyright protects an author’s creative expression of an idea.(#24) However, applying the...
