, may be found in their vast databases of customer information, which may be the subject of intellectual property protection. (Ref: pg 7 ¡V 18 Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues, December 2002)
             This migration of intellectual property onto the Internet can be seen with respect to each species of rights:
             In the field of copyright, vast numbers of works of literature, film and art, and notably computer programs, have already transferred to the digital environment.
             „« Software, protected as a form of intellectual property by patent and copyright law, underlies the operation of all digital technologies. Systems software, including utilities and operating systems, enable our computers to operate, while utilities software provides us with the programs that make the digital networks so useful.
             „« Textual works such as books and newspapers are ideally suited to digitization and, although online publishing of popular literature has had a mixed reception
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