Out of Print By taking readers through the processes by which software is developed and operates, the author is able to highlight the various stages at which copyright issues may arise and to suggest solutions to them. In the world of information technology, all lawyers advising the company and corporate sectors are increasingly finding that they are faced with issues of computer program copyright protection that demand from them an understanding of both developing technologies and law. This definitive text examines all of the principal technologies employed in the development, manufacture, use and general exploitation of computer programs, and thereafter deploying the Law of Copyright (in the UK, USA and within the EU). Whatever the size of company involved, this work provides clear insight into a complex area of law, impacting on all critical areas of company, commercial and industrial practice.