Software licenseing and piracy act for a business lay class
Title: Software licenseing and piracy act for a business lay class
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 3747 | Pages: 14 (approximately 235 words/page)
Software licenseing and piracy act for a business lay class
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 3747 | Pages: 14 (approximately 235 words/page)
Software Licensing and Piracy
Business Law
In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 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 the
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programs with copyright. This resulted in why currently software copyright is not as broad as it once was.
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