Some Economic Aspects of the European Harmonization of Intellectual
Property Rights in Software and its Impact to Eastern EU
The authors describe the most relevant intellectual property right regulation of software in Europe on legal protection of computer programs, the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, and the proposal for a directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions.
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