Abstract
This chapter focuses on computer software and firmware. The use of a computer involves writing of a program. It is by means of a program that a computer is instructed to undertake the tasks that are required of it. The manuals and papers relating to the programming and operation of computers would be protected as literary and artistic works. No particular copyright problems arise in connection with these documents. When a computer prints out, the print-out would be a literary work or an artistic work and entitled to copyright protection. Because the only copyright categories within which computer programs can fit are literary works and artistic works, one must look to the rules regarding the ownership of those works to determine who would own the copyright in them.
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