This article sets out the general intellectual property issues with which software producers should be concerned for the purpose of developing and selling their products. We have set out these issues under the main intellectual property rights headings and we have also dealt under separate headings with the types of agreements and contracts which software producers may need to enter into to ensure the protection of their intellectual property rights.
Copyright - Computer Programs/Literary Works
Most of the ‘products’ developed by software producers take the form of computer programs and often there are numerous types of computer programs to carry out different aspects of an overall software application.
