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...importance of a vibrant semiconductor industry was underscored by Congress last week. In an extraordinary 363-to-0 vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would let chipmakers copyright their designs as if they were novels or plays. The measure, approved by the Senate two weeks ago and expected to be signed soon by President Reagan, is meant to safeguard the years of research and the tens of millions of dollars that it takes to create a chip that can pack several hundred thousand electronic circuits onto a silicon sliver smaller than a fingernail. One target...
...Lewis copyright mark on your cover photograph reflects the true character of your subject. Lewis is apparently out for himself. A worthier cover subject would have been the U.S. men's gymnastics team or Gabriela Andersen-Schiess They, not Lewis, are true Olympians...
...Street firm Dean Witter Reynolds, whose directory will probably be offered: "It's an invitation to subject our employees to unwanted solicitations. The book wasn't prepared for some parasite to grab it and sell it." Dean Witter considers its directory to be proprietary information, and may copyright it to protect it further. Bank of America already did that last year to stop CIS from selling the bank's phone book...
...wish we could. Any smart kid can figure out how to break into a game." Some companies plot profits around the safeguards built into the software; once the pirates have cracked the codes, sales quickly fall off. No one in the industry can accurately estimate the extent of the copyright theft involving games...
...front. The powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) wants to see software treated as industrial property covered by patent law, which allows for only 15 years of protection. The U.S. Government argues that software is intellectual property and should be protected for up to 50 years under copyright treaties. Mill is also pushing for an arbitration system, in which software developers could be legally obliged to make certain products available to competitors if the product is considered "highly useful to the public interest." U.S. officials are extremely wary of the arbitration proposal, and negotiations are stalemated...