Hugh Marbury and Armeen Mistry wrote about why there has been an increase in software copyright lawsuits. They discussed four factors that technology companies should consider before pursuing copyright litigation to protect their software. The four factors are the ease and cost of registering a copyright versus obtaining a patent, software copyrights afford superior protection, the damages and defenses available in software copyright litigation are significant and unique, and the availability of recovering attorney fees makes software copyright litigation formidable when compared to patent litigation.
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