Intellectual Property in Computer Software: Images, Objections and Prospective

CONTENTS
LIST OF ACRONYMS;
LIST OF CASES;
LIST OF DIAGRAMS;
CHAPTER-I INTRODUCTION;
1.1 THE NEW WEALTH OF NATIONS;
1.2 THE GLOBAL SOFTWARE INDUSTRY;
1.3 THE INDIAN SCENARIO;
1.4 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPUTER SOFT\VARE AND THE UNCERTAINTY;
1.5 THE INQUIRY AND OBJECTIVE;
1.6 METHODOLOGY;
1.6.1 HYPOTHESIS;
1.6.2. RESEARCH QUESTIONS;
1.6.3. RESEARCH DESIGN;
1.6.4. FOOTNOTING STYLE;
1.7 CHAPTERIZATION;
CHAPTER-II THE WORLD OF COMPUTER - AN OUTLINE;
2.1. COMPUTER - AN UNIQUE MACHINE;
2.2. GENERATIONS OF COMPUTERS;
2.3. THE HAHDWAHE AND SOFTWARE;
2.4. HARDWARE - THE ARCHITECTURE;
2.5. SOFTWARE - THE MIND;
2.6. SOFTWARE - THE DIFFERENT TYPES;
2.7. COMPUTEH LANGUAGES;
2.8. THE SOURCE CODE AND THE OBJECT CODE;
2.9. PROGRAM WRITING - THE STAGES;
2.10 INTEROPERABILITY AND INTERFACES;
2.11 REVEHSE ENGINEEHING AND THE DECOMPILATION;
2.12 USEH INTERFACE;
CHAPT.ER-III COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE - A CRITICAL SURVEY;
3.1 THE STATUTORY REGIME OF COPYRIGHT;
3.1.1 PROTECTION UNDER THE COPYRIGHT LAW OF UNITED STATES;
3.1.1.1 THE HISTORICAL BACKDROP;
3.1.1.2 THE PROVISIONS OF THE COPYHIGHT Act OF 1976;
3.1.1.3 THE SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP PROTEC'TION Act OF 1984;
3.1.2 PROTECTION UNDER THE COPYRIGHT LAW OF UNITED KINGDOM;
3.1.3 PROTECTION UNDER THE COPYRIGHT LAW OF INDIA;
3.1.4 PHOTECTION UNDER THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE RELATED ASPECTS OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS;
3.1.5 PROTECTION UNDER THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DIRECTIVES;
ON THE PROTECTOION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS;
3.1.6 THE WI PO COPYHIGHTTHEATY, 1996;
3.2 THE JUDICIAL PHONOUNCEMENTS;
3.2.1 COPYRIGHTABILITY OF COMPUTEH PROGRAMS EXPHESSED IN OBJECTIVE CODE;
3.2.2 COPYHIGHTABILITY OF NON-LITEHAL ELEMENTS OF COMPUTER PROGHAMS;
3.2.2.1 COPYRIGHTABILITY OF NON-LITERAL ELEMENTSIN THE CONTEXT OF PHOGRAM STRUCTURE AND DESIGN;
3.2.2.2 COI'YHIGHTABIIXIY IN NON-LITERAL ELEMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF USER INTERFACE;
3.2.2.3 COPYHIGIIT IN NON LITERAL ELEMENTS APPROACH;
OF THE COURTS FOLLOWING COMMON LAW SYSTEM;
1.2.2.4 NON LITERAL COPYING - THE INDIAN APPHOACH;
3.2.2.5 COPYRIGHTABILITY OF NON LITERAL ELEMENTS - A POLICY ISSUE;
3.2.3 COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AND REVE;RSE ENGINEEHING;
3.3 THE INTEROPERABILITY DEBATE;
CHAPTER-IV PATENT PROTECTION FOR SOFTWARE RELATED INVENTIONA
CRITICAL SURVEY;
4.1. THE PATENT REGIME IN UNITED STATES OF AMEHICA;
4.2 THE BHITISH PATENT REGIME;
4) THE INDIAN REGIME;
4.4 THE EUROPEAN POSITION;
4.5 EFFEC'T OF THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE - RELATED ASPEL'TS OF INTELLECUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS;
CHAPTER-V OTHER FORMS OF LEGAL PROTECTION FOR SOFIWARE
5.1 USE OF LAW OF CONTRACT;
5.l.1 SHRINK-WRAP LICENSE;
5.l.l.1 FORMATION;
5.l.l.2 LEGAI.ITY OF THE LICENSE;
5.1.2 LICENSING OF BESPOKE SOFTWARE;
5.2 USE OF LAW OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRET;
CHAPTER-VI THE DOCTORINAIRE TENSION OF THE DIGITAL AGE - AN INQUIRY INTO CONCEPTIJAL DILEMMA OF THE EXISTING REGIME IN DEALING WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS;
6.1 THE CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS
6.1.1 NON DISCLOSURE AND NON PERCEIVABII.ITY
6.l.2 COMPUTER PROGRAMS ARE NOT ONLY TEXT BUT THEY DO BEHAVE ALSO;
6.1.3 COMPUTER PROGRAMS ARE MACHINES EXPRESSED IN 111E FORM OF TEXT;
6.1.4 THE CYCLES OF UNDERPROTECTION AND OVERPROTECTION;
6.2 THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION OF THE DOCTRINAL PROBLEMS;
CHAPTER-VII CO~CLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS;
7.1 THE EXISTING SYSTEM FAILS;
7.2 THE SUI GENERISSYSTEM;
7.3 TIEE SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS OF THE INDIAN COPYHIGHT ACT;
BIBLIOGRAPHY.