School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

INLS 105, Information Ethics
Fall 2003

Software as Intellectual Property

 

Key Readings

Committee on Public Information, Section on Intellectual Property Law, American Bar Association. (2001). Intellectual Property: A Guide for Engineers: A Project for the Committee on Issues Identification, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. New York: ASME Press. [SILS - KF2980 .A5 2001]

Dandekar, N. (1997). Moral issues involved in protecting software as intellectual property. In Agre, P. E., & Schule, D. (eds.), Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critial Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 73-83. [SILS - QA76.9 .C66 R47 1997]

Heckel, P. (1992). Debunking the software patent myths. Communications of the ACM, 35(6), 121-40. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

League for Programming Freedom. (1992). Viewpoint: against software patents. Communications of the ACM, 35(1), 17-22, 121. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Samuelson, P. (1998). Legally speaking: does information really have to be licensed? Communications of the ACM, 41(9), 15-20. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Samuelson, P. (1991). Legally speaking: is information property? Communications of the ACM, 34(3), 15-18. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Samuelson, P. (1990). Legally speaking: should program algorithms be patented? Communications of the ACM, 33(8), 23-27. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Yoches, E. R., & Levine, A. J. (1989). Basic principles of copyright protection for computer software. Communications of the ACM, 32(5), 544-45. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Additional References

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., & Sanders, G. L. (2003). Digital music and online sharing: software piracy 2.0? Communications of the ACM, 46(7), 107-111. [ACM Digital Library]

Galler, B. A. (1995). Software and Intellectual Property Protection: Copyright and Patent Issues for Computer and Legal Professionals. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. [Law - KF3024 .C6 G35 1995]

National Research Council. (1991). Intellectual Property Issues in Software. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309043441/html/index.html. [SILS - QA76.755 .N385 1991]

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. (1992). Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property, and the Challenge of Technological Change. U.S. Government Printing Office. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1992/9215_n.html. [HSL - KF3024 .C6 F494 1992]

Scenarios of Ethical Decisions

Spinello, R. A. (1997). Case 6.3, Whose program is this? In Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 132-135. [Davis - QA76.9 .M65 S65 1997]

Spinello, R. A. (1997). Case 6.4, Doric Conversion Technologies, Inc. In Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 135-138. [Davis - QA76.9 .M65 S65 1997]

Spinello, R. A. (1997). Case 6.5, Software compatibility and reverse engineering. In Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 138-145. [Davis - QA76.9 .M65 S65 1997]


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