PLSC 380Z Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Software Patent, Related Rights, Doha Declaration
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Time periods of copyright by recent times: corporation"s 120 years expansion of the subject matter books and maps at rst - valuable, and advantage if made one by keeping and selling choreography, architecture, software (coding as a literary work/text) Copyright for software as a result of trips. 1970"s: scotus: you can patent software source code is covered by copyright. Us: parent company goes to the state dept into wto as violation of trips. Super trips provisions in bi-lateral trade agreements after trips that ask for more from the other country. Doha declaration: yes, we will honor patents, but they should not take precedent over health energies. Utility patents: regular patents that require novelty, utility , and usefulness. Owers? value of owers that england brought - english were crazy about gardens found value in taking other stu from everywhere else english had no idea how and where it was grown turns into biopiracy.