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Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America
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Author:
Gerardo Con Diaz
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Release Date:
2019
ISBN-10:
0300228392
ISBN-13:
9780300228397

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About Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

"This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. He shows that securing patent protection for computer programs has been a central concern among computer developers since the 1950s and traces how patents and copyrights became inseparable from software development in the Internet age"--

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