This article examines three critical, interrelated challenges for reforming legal protection for computer software: (1 … software innovations; (2) predicting the likely path of computer technology; and (3) anticipating and navigating potential … impediments to legislative reform of legal protection for software. It warns that patent protection for computer software poses …

After a decade of bruising legal battles, the courts and software industry norms largely resolved the costly war over … the scope of copyright protection for computer software. By the mid 1990s, freedom to develop interoperable devices …, systems, and software triumphed over broad copyright protection for network features of computer software. Copyright peace …