Preface
What Is This Book About?
This book is generally about software intellectual property and specifically about the field of software forensics. While you may never testify in a courtroom, attempt to deduce the true owner of a valuable program, or measure the intellectual property (IP) value of software source code, if you are at all involved with software you need to know how to protect your rights to that software. This book will give you an understanding of those rights, their limitations, how to protect those rights, and how to take action against someone or some organization that you believe has infringed on those rights.
Unlike digital forensics, which studies the bits and bytes on a digital storage medium, such as a hard disk or DVD-ROM, ...
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