Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law and copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, which are subject to Constitutional authority. In order for the government to prosecute the unauthorized copying of computerized information as theft, it must first rely on other theories of information-as-property. ... For example, the information must be secret, not of public knowledge or of general knowledge in the trade or business. ... Since a computer program is textual, like a book, yet also mechanical, like the piano roll in White-Smith, the Copyright Office grante...

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