In Canada, software is protected as a literary work under the Copyright Act of Canada. No such duty would apply had the software in question been in the public domain. For instance, copyleft licenses impose a duty on licensees to share their modifications to the work with the user or copy owner under some circumstances. Free and open source licenses also rely on copyright law to enforce their terms. Software copyright is used by software developers and proprietary software companies to prevent the unauthorized copying of their software. This article primarily focuses on topics particular to software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning software copyright have close parallels in other domains of copyright law, there are a number of distinctive issues that arise with software. Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software.
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