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Legal Care for Your SOFTWARE by Daniel Remer and Robert Dunaway

A Step-by-Step Legal Guide for Computer Software Writers, Programmers and Publishers

You've just written the next software bestseller and can't wait to reap the rewards of long hours of hard work. Or, your company needs to hire several programmers to integrate your systems and you want to make sure you're guaranteed satisfactory performance. Before you take the next step, be sure that you've taken proper care to insure your success. Is that contract you signed really a fair return for your efforts? Have you taken the necessary steps to protect that brilliant code, or will the pirated version be out before your own? And if so, do you have recourse? How do you go about making sure that you do?

LEGAL CARE FOR YOUR SOFTWARE, The Fifth Edition, is now completely revised and remains the software industry's definitive book explaining software protection law. It shows how to take advantage of it, and offers practical advice for writers and publishers of computer software. It includes tear-out contracts and forms ready to be used or modified.

LEGAL CARE FOR YOUR SOFTWARE will tell you:

When and how to use trade secret, copyright, patent, and trademark protection for your software
Contract nuts and bolts--how to negotiate, write and agree to contracts which protect both parties and insure a strong working relationship
The types of contracts common to software publishing, including work-made-for-hire and royalty agreements
How to limit your liability when the program is published--protecting not only your program but yourself
Common sense advice on how to avoid legal hassles before they occur
How to obtain copyright protection in other countries

"LEGAL CARE FOR YOUR SOFTWARE is a step-by-step, simply written, and thorough guide for anyone who writes or publishes commercial software or who wonders if it would be worth the trouble to do so...
The sample forms and contracts...may be the most useful part of the book. A careful reading of these forms can be as educational as the chapters they explain.
The authors write clearly and with plenty of common sense. It's hard to imagine a more useful or less intimidating guide to the legal complexities of protecting software."

--Byte Magazine

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Foreward
Expanded Table of Contents
Chapter 1: An Overview of Software Protection Techniques
Chapter 2: Trade Secrets
Chapter 3: Copyright Protection
Chapter 4: Introduction to Contracts
Chapter 5: Contracts - Nuts and Bolts
Chapter 6: Works-Made-for-Hire and Assignement of Software Copyright
Chapter 7: Evaluation and Beta Test Agreements
Chapter 8: Software License Agreements
Chapter 9: Trademarks
Chapter 10: Patents
Chapter 11: Limiting Liability
Chapter 12: Remedies
Chapter 13: International Software Law
Appendices
How to obtain your own copy of Legal Care for Your Software
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For legal inquiries of the author, send email to dunawayrw@aol.com or call (602) 922-8809.

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