Conference Knowright2008: Software authors lost their rights http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-90778/conference-knowright2008:software-authors-lost-their-rights Posts in the discussion thread "Conference Knowright2008: Software authors lost their rights" - I was arguing at the recent Knowright2008 conference in Krakow (Poland) why software authors lost their rights with software patents. I was explaining why the Berne Convention which protects software under a copyright regime (for source code and binary code) does not give space for software patents. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:21:36 +0000 http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-90778#post-264833 Conference Knowright2008: Software authors lost their rights http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-90778/conference-knowright2008:software-authors-lost-their-rights#post-264833 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:59:04 +0000 zoobab 2946 I was arguing at the recent Knowright2008 conference in Krakow (Poland) why software authors lost their rights with software patents. I was explaining why the Berne Convention which protects software under a copyright regime (for source code and binary code) does not give space for software patents.

Here is the presentation:

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After my presentation, the BSA representative mentioned his disagreement with my argumentation, saying that there is the "idea" and the "implementation".

Maybe there are Americans in the room to cite the First Amendment?

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