Software law

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Software law refers to the legal remedies available to protect software-based assets. Software may, under various circumstances and in various countries, be restricted by patent or copyright or both. Most commercial software is sold under some kind of software license agreement.{{FOLDOC|Software+law}}

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Frederic William Neitzke. A Software Law Primer. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1984. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YWtPAAAAMAAJ Google]
Robert Gomulkiewicz. Software Law and its Application. Aspen Publishing. 2023. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EtmvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR1 Google]

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