Artifact Details

Title

Personal computer (PC) software workshop : legal issues : piracy

Catalog Number

102737910

Type

Document

Description

Executives from the PC software industry join with members of various trade associations (ADAPSO and SPA) to discuss issues related to pirating of software. They talk about the efforts of the trade associations to reduce piracy through education and penalties and they finish by discussing the issues of copy protection, copyrights and patents.

Date

2004-05-06

Contributor

Ances, Carol Anne, Editor
Aspray, William, Historian
Bergin, Thomas (Tim), Historian
Bricklin, Daniel, Participant
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, Historian
Grad, Burt, Moderator
Jerger, Douglas, Participant
Johnson, Luanne, Participant
Schachter, Oscar H., Participant
Wasch, Ken, Participant
Yost, Jeffrey, Historian

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Needham, Massachusetts

Extent

21 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

ADAPSO; Ashton-Tate; Bricklin, Dan; Business Software Alliance (BSA); CompuServe; Copyright Protection; Copyright; Grad, Burt; Jerger, Doug; Johnson, Luanne; Lessig, Larry; Lotus Development Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Patents; Patents; Piracy; Schachter, Oscar; Software Patent Institute; SPA [Software Publishing Association]; Wasch, Ken; WordPerfect

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software Industry Special Interest Group

Lot Number

X4621.2008