... program, evolving case law should determine the extent of protection. The commission also felt copyright was the best alternative among existing intellectual property protective mechanisms. CONTU rejected trade secret and patents as viable protective mechanisms. The CONTU report resulted in the 1980 Computer Software Act, and the report acts as informal legislative history to aid the courts in interpreting the Act. ... In 1980, the Copyright Act was amended to explicitly include computer programs. It now states that it is illegal to make or to distribute copies of copyrighted material w...

• Word Count: 1391
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... but follows and unanticipated path."(Blumenthal, 1:2) There is no actual profile of a computer criminal because they range from young teens to elders, from black to white, from short to tall. Definitions of computer crime has changed over the years as the users and misusers of computers have expanded into new areas. "When computers were first introduced into businesses, computer crime was defined simply as a form ... of white-collar crime committed inside a computer system."(2600:Summer 92,p.13) Some new terms have ... he tried to explain what he did and how he did it. He is a very int...

• Word Count: 1726
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... but follows and unanticipated path."(Blumenthal, 1:2) There is no actual profile of a computer criminal because they range from young teens to elders, from black to white, from short to tall. Definitions of computer crime have changed over the years as the users and misusers of computers have expanded into new areas. "When computers were first introduced into businesses, computer crime was defined simply as a form ... of white-collar crime committed inside a computer system."(2600:Summer 92,p.13) Some new terms have ... him he tried to explain what he did and how he did it. He is a ver...

• Word Count: 1739
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School