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.
There are two types of “indirect infringement,” i.e., contributory infringement and vicarious liability.
i. Contributory Infringement
Someone who knows or should have known that he or she is assisting,...
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.
Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner (discussed above) is an infringer of the copyright.(36) Copying a computer program without permission onto a diskette or a hard drive is...
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.
Because a computer program often represents a complex mixture of protectable and unprotectable elements, a particular test known as the abstraction-filtration-comparison test has been developed to assist judges...
Article provided by Timothy B. McCormack, Seattle Copyright Attorney working in area of copyright litigation, procurement and development. This is the first in a series of a number of Software Copyright articles.
In a practical sense, understanding how copyright law affects software development requires an understanding of how lawyers, judges, and juries understand the task of computer programming. These groups ultimately...
