Courts have struggled for decades to develop a test for judging infringement claims in software copyright cases that distinguishes between program expression that copyright law protects and program functionality for which copyright protection is unavailable. The case law thus far has adopted...

During the past decade, undergraduate computer science students have become progressively more interested in pursuing less traditional paths of employment after graduation. While most still choose to work for established businesses, others are choosing to start businesses of their own. For...

This Article identifies a profound, ongoing shift in the modern administrative state: from the regulation of things to the regulation of code. This shift has and will continue to place previously isolated agencies in an increasing state of overlap, raising the likelihood of inconsistent...

Innovations like Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have today become an integral and indispensable facilitator in the business organizations. Sri Lanka is fast progressing into ICT. Computerized information system is used as a competitive weapon by the managers of the companies to...

It is commonly believed that every contributor to a free and open source software project owns copyright in their incremental contribution to the project, and owns it solely. It is also commonly believed that one must avoid a legal conclusion that the project code is jointly authored—and...

Over the last 20 years, open source development has become an integral part of the software industry and a key component of the innovation strategies of all major IT providers. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to develop a systematic overview of open source communities and their...