Software law

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Software law refers to the legal remedies available to protect software-based assets. Software may, under various circumstances and in various countries, be restricted by patent or copyright or both. Most commercial software is sold under some kind of software license agreement.

v t e Intellectual property activism
Issues and debates	Copyright infringement software Digital rights management Gripe site Intellectual property Legal aspects of file sharing Mashup videos music Music piracy Orphan works Patents biological sofware software debate trolling Public domain
Concepts	All rights reversed Alternative compensation system Anti-copyright notice Business models for open source software Copyleft Commercial use of copyleft works Commons-based peer production Free content Free software license Infoanarchism Libertarian positions Open content Open design Open Music Model Open patent Open-source hardware Open source software Prize system contests Share-alike Video on demand
Movements	Access to Knowledge movement Anti-copyright Cultural environmentalism Free culture movement Free software movement
Organizations	Copyright Alliance Creative Commons Electronic Frontier Foundation Free Software Foundation Open Rights Group Organization for Transformative Works The Pirate Bay Piratbyrån Pirate Party Students for Free Culture
People	Rickard Falkvinge Lawrence Lessig Richard Stallman Peter Sunde Aaron Swartz
Documentaries	Steal This Film (2006, 2007) Good Copy Bad Copy (2007) RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008) TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)

This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.