Tangibility of Software: ‘Seen Is Not Limited to the Unaided Eye, Weighed Is Not Limited to the Butcher or Bathroom Scale, and Measured Is Not Limited to a Yardstick’
The nature of (video game) software has been disputed from the very beginning. Whilst software’s binary code cannot be perceived by the naked eye, this note will show that it still has physical properties of mass and volume. In this blog, Senior Associate Stephan Buck considers the law – and the science – behind the…