Software law

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Software law refers the to legal remedies available to protect software-based assets. Software may, under various circumstances and in various countries, be restricted by patent or copyright or both. Most commercial software is sold under some kind of software license agreement.

v t e Intellectual property activism

Issues and debates	Copyright infringement Copyright infringement of software Digital rights management Gripe site Intellectual property Legal aspects of file sharing Mashup videos music Music piracy Patents Public domain Software patent debate Patent trolling

Concepts	All rights reversed Anti-copyright notice Business models for open source software Copyleft Commercial use of copyleft works Commons-based peer production Free content Free software licence Infoanarchism Libertarian positions Open content Open design Open Music Model Open patent Open source hardware Open source software Share-alike

Movements	Access to Knowledge movement Anti-copyright Cultural environmentalism Free culture movement Free software movement

Organizations	Creative Commons Electronic Frontier Foundation Free Software Foundation Open Rights Group Organization for Transformative Works The Pirate Bay Piratbyrån Pirate Party Students for Free Culture

Documentaries	Steal This Film (2006, 2007) Good Copy Bad Copy (2007) RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008) TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)

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Software law

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