In a corporate setting or business, every computer must have its own set of original software and the appropriate number of manuals. ... Since a computer program is textual, like a book, yet also mechanical, like the piano roll in White vs. ... In 1974, the government created the Natural Commission on New Technological Uses (CONTU) to investigate whether the evolving computer technology field outpaced the existing copyright laws and also to determine the extent of copyright protection for computer programs. ... The CONTU report resulted in the 1980 Computer Software Act, and the report acts ...

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