摘要：The law surrounding computer software copyright' is on a collision course with Computer science. One of the main reasons for this is that legal terms of art in copyright case law do not reflect accepted computer science terminology. For example, the cases have coined phrases like "structure, sequence, and organization ''2 and "program structure, ''3 but neither termaccurately reflects computer science reality. The use of these court-made terms has tended to make the application of copyright law to computer sot~ware frustrating for judges and litigants and confusing for the billion-dollar computer software industry.
