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H.R. 6983 (97th)

A bill to amend title 17 of the United States Code to improve the protection afforded to computer software, and for other purposes.

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Introduced

12 August 1982

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Status

Referred to Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice.

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Summary

Includes computer software among the works of authorship entitled to copyright protection. States that copyright protection does not interfere with any rights the owner of a copyright may possess under a State trade secret law. Sets forth the form copyright notice should take with respect to such software. Directs the Register of Copyrights to prescribe regulations for the deposit of such material.

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