IT and Software Law: A closer Look to Legal Practice

The Article begins with the development process of the “chip” and discusses the scope of the cybercrimes added to Turkish Penal Code in 1991 and copyright protection of the computer programmes implemented to Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works in 1995. The Article also underlies the importance of developments in “information highways” at that time. Legal proceedings are categorized in three periods such as: (i) the period before 1991, (ii) the period between1991-1995 and (iii) the period after 1995; then penal and civil rulings belonging to the mentioned periods are summarised. Finally, IP rights from which the authors of computer programmes may benefit after the changes in 1995 and problems in legal practice are explained. (Haluk İnanıcı, İstanbul Barosu Dergisi, No. 70, p.7, 8, 9, 1996)