David Starkoff

Copyright: Law and Practice in a Digital Age

David's 2001 Honours thesis, under the supervision of Cristina Cifuentes and Anne Fitzgerald, involved the study of the existing legislation as it relates to digital materials, namely, computer software and digital works. 

David, a combined Law and Computer Science graduate, presents the law in a way accessible to the computing community in this thesis.  He looks at the legislation, as it stood in 2001, in Australia, the United States, and the European Community. 

Abstract

Copyright law is a branch of intellectual property which protects the expression of ideas.  Computer programs are protected by copyright law as literary works; the holder of the copyright in a computer program can control all reproductions of it unless expressly allowed by law.

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Thesis

The Copyright: Law and Practice in a Digital Age thesis is available in PDF form (399KB). 

Bibtex entry:

@MASTERSTHESIS{
   author = "D. Starkoff",
   title = "Copyright: Law and Practice in a Digital Age",
   school = "The University of Queensland",
   type = "Honours Thesis",
   address = "Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering",
   date = nov,
   year = 2001
}