The Software License Unveiled: How Legislation by License Controls Software Access - Hardcover

Phillips, Douglas E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195341872 ISBN 13: 9780195341874

Publisher: OUP USA, 2009

Synopsis

Nearly every use of a computer is subject not only to public intellectual property law, but also to the privately-written law of the software license. Although the United States has only one Copyright Act and one set of patent laws, there exist thousands of different licenses - to which millions of computer users legally bind themselves by the click of a mouse, usually without reading anything but the word "agree." How do these proliferating but largely unread licenses affect access to software, one of the economy's most valuable resources? In The Software License Unveiled, visionary practitioner Doug Phillips aims to illuminate the unseen law of software to which the software license gives rise.

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About the Author

Douglas Phillips is Vice President and General Counsel of Promontory Interfinancial Network, an Arlington, Virginia company that provides technology-based solutions for financial institutions. Previously he was Of Counsel to Covington & Burling and senior member of the Technology Transactions Group, where his practice focused on software and intellectual property aspects of acquisitions and funding transactions. He was also president of the Business Software Alliance, an organization formed by Microsoft and other world-leading software companies to protect intellectual property rights and increase market access overseas.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195341872
• ISBN 13: 9780195341874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232