Online content providers search for protections; for now, creators must rely on a melange of technological self-help, contract clauses and law

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Content creators seeking to protect their material in cyberspace are relegated to a strategy combining the present law, the contractual provisions of enforceable license agreements and self-help technology. Slf-help technology includes encryption and other security measures. Web-wrap licenses pose the same questions as shrink-wrap licenses do with computer software on the mass market. Pending legislation would amend the Copyright Act of 1976 to facilitate the protection of intellectual property in cyberspace.

Computer networks, Internet, Databases

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New frontiers

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There is a general consensus that virtual works, virtual objects and virtual realities all merit copyright protection. Creators of virtual realities are expressing their version of reality, not a direct copy thereof, and this is the creative component which makes them protectable by copyright. Federal courts adjudicating virtual reality copyright infringement cases will probably require 'striking similarity' rather than the traditional 'substantial similarity' to find that infringement has occurred.

Computer simulation

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PTO reviews past pacts and plots future course; international accords are at the heart of Patent office efforts to improve IP protection worldwide

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) actively took part in efforts during the year 1995 to improve international standards for intellectual property protection worldwide. Efforts included the Agreement on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, the US-China Accord on Intellectual Property Rights, the Trademark Law Treaty, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Berne Protocol and New Instrument. The PTO also took part in international training programs.

Planning, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, international

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