Historia powstawania i ochrony oprogramowania

Historia powstawania i ochrony oprogramowania

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Historia powstawania i ochrony oprogramowania

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title:	Historia powstawania i ochrony oprogramowania
alternative title:	On the history of emergence and protection of the software
author:	Szczerbińska-Byrska Małgorzata
editor:	Grodziski Stanisław, Malec Dorota , Karabowicz Anna , Stus Marek
book title:	Vetera novis augere : studia i prace dedykowane Profesorowi Wacławowi Uruszczakowi
volume:	2
date of publication :	2010
place of publication : name of publisher:	Kraków : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
pages:	999-1007
ISBN:	978-83-233-2778-3
notes:	Strona wydawcy: https://www.wuj.pl
language:	Polish
book language:	Polish
abstract in English:	The paper discusses the initial stages of computerization and the legal questions arising from it. At the beginning the computers were produced as single pieces and prototypical items. In the 1950s there started the mass production of the computer systems. The fi rst computers were equipped with the software in the machine languages. In the course of time there were however worked out the algorythmic languages of upper level. These languages were more convenient for the programmer since they operated with the symbolic names of variables. The beginning of the real standardization of personal computers fall upon the early 1980s when the IBM firm - through rendering its entire PC XT model technical documentation gratuitously available - imposed on customers its world-wide standard of systemic and usable software. It is against this background that there were presented the legal aspects of this new intellectual interest that sprang into existence. In the late 1960s the antimonopoly law forced the computer producers to separate their software from the equipment and to offer the software it to the customers as a separate product. At that time the lawyers were not sure and unanimous about how to treat such product from the point of view of the right of ownership and the freedom of disposing of it. It was believed that the patent law would provide the right instrument for the protection of such innovative result (entirely new, original and non-obvious). What nevertheless was accepted was the protection of software on the basis of copyright. It was done while assuming that the software demonstrates the minimum of originality. The settling of the question of originality was left to the courts of law. Regarding the computer programs as subject-matter of copyright protection enlarges the scope of traditional products protected by copyright.
type:	chapter
subtype:	academic paper