Copyright protection for a computer program

Copyright: a Too Strong Protection Policy for Computer Software?

Copyright: a Too Strong Protection Policy for Computer Software?

Copyright Protection for Electronic Publishing over Computer Networks

The increased availability of computers, printers and high-speed networks could make electronic publishing a reality. One of the major technical and economic challenges faced by electronic publishing is that of preventing individuals from easily copying and illegally distributing electronic documents. In this paper, we explore the use of cryptographic protocols to discourage the distribution of...

Recent Developments in Copyright and Patent Protection of Computer Software

The law of Singapore has yet to deal with any of the new and difficult issues peculiar to the protection of intellectual property rights in computer programs, but it is probably only a matter of time before it does. When that time comes, we shall have the luxury of being able to learn from the experience of other jurisdictions. It is proposed in this article to briefly identify the major legal ...

A robust software watermarking for copyright protection

This paper advocates protecting software copyright through hiding watermarks in various data structures used by the code, e.g., Bþ-trees, R-trees, linked lists, etc. Prior proposals hide the watermarks in dummy data structures, e.g., linked lists and graphs that are created, solely for this reason, during the execution of the hosting software. This makes them vulnerable to subtractive attacks, ...