ITM 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Executable, Reverse Engineering

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 407
• Professor: Debashish Roy

Document Summary

Scarcity applies to tangible objects since they are practical limitations on how much physical objects one can own, while intellectual objects can easily be reproduced be given to the tangible expression of an idea (original: ownership of intellectual property: one cannot own an idea, legal protection can only, examples: literary or artistic property could be represented in a book or paper, if, copyright is given to literary ideas while patents are given to inventions functional (invention) must be expressed in a machine or process. In 1976 programs, computers and databases were allowed to be protected by copyright laws: computer program (us copyright act): set of statements or instructions to be used, to get copyright protection the author had to show the program contained original directly in a computer that brings about certain results. expression of ideas, the sbctea extended length of copyright protection from author"s life + 50 years to author"s life + 70 years.