A Study On Copyright- esp. focused on software copyright-
Since the dawn of computing a half-century ago, software has hidden its human-readable source code in non-readable source code in non-readable 'object code' that only the computer can interpret. Having the examined the significance of source code and how it's structure operating, its attention to my point of comparison: copyright protection for computer software and copyleft to optimize the requirements copyrights protections improving the intellectual property system in Korea.
This article analyzes for software copyright protection by comparing our legal systems and US software protection within the copyrights law. Part Ⅰ contains introduction to software copyrights protection, Part Ⅱ give a conspectus of Korea Software Protection Law & Copyrights Law, its structure of traditinal rights and the point of issues of comparative legal approach with relate to EU and US legal systems. Also Part Ⅲ, inquires into copyrights in US intellectual legal systems, the board of CONTU, Software Committee in 1996, scope of copyright protection.
Part Ⅳ investigates fair use doctrine in copyright and copyleft theories to graps digital future of copyright law.
In my conclusion, software copyright is no more exclusive as a human right, the rights to participate in cultural life and, as a result, the freedom of creation. In this view, it seems to me that copyleft doctrine would be more surpass traditional intellectual property theory.