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Prospective Economic Impacts of Allowing Government-Operated Federal Laboratories to Assert Copyright Protection for Their Custom Software Products

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Author(s)

David Leech, John T. Scott
Citation
Grant/Contract Reports (NISTGCR) - NIST GCR 21-028
Report Number
NIST GCR 21-028
NIST Pub Series
Grant/Contract Reports (NISTGCR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.GCR.21-028
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Keywords

copyright, federal, laboratory, software, technology transfer
Software research and Mathematics and statistics

Citation

Leech, D. and Scott, J. (2021), Prospective Economic Impacts of Allowing Government-Operated Federal Laboratories to Assert Copyright Protection for Their Custom Software Products, Grant/Contract Reports (NISTGCR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.GCR.21-028, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=932416 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created May 3, 2021, Updated November 14, 2023
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