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Economics of intellectual property protection for software: the proper role for copyright

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Volume 3 , Issue 2 (June 1995) table of contents

Pages: 68 - 78

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:1067-9936

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Frederick R. Warren-Boulton	MiCRA: Microeconomics Consulting and Research Associates, Washington, DC
Kenneth C. Baseman	MiCRA: Microeconomics Consulting and Research Associates, Washington, DC
Glenn A. Woroch	Univ. of California, Berkeley

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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