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Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Technology

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Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age

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Computer products consist of those parts of the computer you can see and touch (e.g., the keyboard, CPU, printer, and monitor). They are considered products because they have tangible form and intrinsic value.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 37403, Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Joseph Migga Kizza

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Kizza, J.M. (1998). Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Technology. In: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2950-4_5

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