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Copyright and use of computers for access to protected works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Evgueni Guerassimov*
Affiliation:
Copyright Division, Unesco

Extract

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It is considered that the term “copyright” originated in Anglo-Saxon law at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Originally, it meant a “right to make a copy” of a work. This was because at that time copying (mainly by printing presses) was almost the only mode of reproduction.

Type
F. Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

References

(1) Problems arising from the use of computers for creation of works which may enjoy protection under the copyright law and protection of computer software are not dealt with in this paper.

(2) See: “Forum”, Council of Europe Quarterly, No. 1/81, p. XII

(3) It should be mentioned that, at the request of Unesco and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) a number of extensive studies on the subject were carried out by Professor Eugen Ulmer of the Max Planck Institute in Munich.