The 21st Century has always been about computers, software and
the internet. The very first time a stored-program computer held a
piece of software in electronic memory and executed it
successfully, was 21st June 1948, at the University of Manchester,
on the Manchester Baby computer. Do you know what was it for? That
software calculated the highest factor of the integer 2^18. Looking
at the progress in the field of software it is evident that we have
come a long way. Today we are entering the industrial revolution
4.0 which is powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Being an IP enthusiastic, I like to look at the development from
an intellectual property perspective. Under the Copyright Act, 1957
the software is granted copyright protection unless it leads to a
technical effect and is not a computer program per se. So
generally, the software which doesn't have a technical effect
is granted protection under the copyright regime. The threshold
criteria to qualify for
