This web site contains the full text of the First Edition of the treatise, published by BNA Books on November 26, 2002, and updated through September 12, 2014.
The following material is available online:
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A complete version of the treatise, with hypertext links in the footnotes to the cited material. You can find any section of the printed version by using this Table of Contents.
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All court decisions quoted or cited in the treatise.
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Congressional documents and other material quoted or cited in the treatise.
A Second Edition was published in 2016. In addition to a new discussion of software patents, it added chapters on trademarks and trade secrets. Because of contractual obligations, that new material cannot be available here. It is out of print, but may be available in a library and is available online at Bloomberg Law.
The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) was established by Congress, and operated between 1975 and 1978 to determine how the Copyright Act of 1976 should address computers and copy machines. On July 31, 1978, it issued its Final Report, which is frequently cited, but not readily available.
It is now available both as a series of web pages and as PDF images of the original report. You can also find any section using this Table of Contents.
And we have a picture of the CONTU
commissioners and staff, taken at their last meeting.
