Ebenezer Abayomi Adeyege
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Software Development, Intellectual Property, and IT Security
February 21, 2004 @ 09:40 AM
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There is an ongoing legislative process of enhancing intellectual property rights in the fields of copyright protection and patent protection. How the security of information technology is affected by laws and technical measures is rarely considered, at least if one takes as a guide the political and legal processes that lead to new legislation.1
Lobbyists of the right owners put heavy pressure on the politicians to enact laws to protect their commercial interests - often successfully. As the topic of security is approached, the right holders worry about the safety of their respective intellectual property assets but actually do not care much about the security of the underlying information infrastructure.
You can read the complete story at http://www.elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/03-1/gehring.htm
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