REMARKS ON TECHNOLOGICAL NEUTRALITY IN COPYRIGHT LAW AS A SUBJECT MATTER PROBLEM: LESSONS FROM CANADA

Neutrality in Technological Landscapes

Searching for technological and organizational innovations is a fundamental activity in social systems. Recent work in this area has focused on the notion of firms locally searching for high points on a “fitness landscape.” Here we show how the presence of neutral networks forming pathways of temporarily inconsequential changes can alter the potential of innovation in such worlds. In particular...

WARSIM 2000: A Case for Technological Subject Matter Experts

WARSIM, the U.S. Army’s next-generation simulation and intended land component of JSIMS is supposed to replace several existing “legacy” simulations. With the cancellation of JSIMS as a result of technological and organizational hurdles, we review the literature documenting the development of WARSIM’s requirements specifications; analyze some particularly challenging requirements manifested in ...

Patent Subject Matter under Chinese Law ?

In the Citibank-Patent-Case, the underlying issue is whether E-bank related business methods are subject matter of patent under Chinese law. At first flash, there are at least two barriers to patent protection for Citibank to cover. The first, E-bank related business methods only function with the help of computer software, so the coming issue is whether computer software is patent subject matt...

A Question in the Law of Copyright

In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, in U. S, 53 (1884), the question was presented, to what extent Congress was within its constitutional powers in attempting to grant exclusive rights to the "author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any . , photograph." Rev. St. § 4952. The subject-matter of the case was a photograph of Oscar Wilde, who was specially posed for the occasion. The argu...

Remarks on Law and Literature