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Software Licensing 2
Title: Software Licensing 2
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 3824 | Pages: 16.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Software Licensing 2
By: Brian Filten
E-mail: sosynical@hotmail.com
In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost .5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of .2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business software in …showed first 75 words of 3824 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3824 total…copyright. This resulted in why currently software copyright is not as broad as it once was.
Bibliography
Brandel, William, "Licensing stymies users," URL:"http://www.viman.com/license/license.html#policy", Viman Software, Inc., 1994. Business Software Alliance, "Software Piracy and the Law," URL:"http://www.bsa.org/bsa/docs/soft_pl.html", Business Software Alliance, 1995. Software Publishers Association, "SPA Anti-Piracy Backgrounder," URL:"http://www.spa.org/piracy/pi_back.htm", Software Publishers Association, 1995.
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