Software programs were unprotected by copyright law until the early 1990s.

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Software programs were protected by copyright law before the 1990s, but the extent of the protection varied and there were legal debates about the issue. The United States Copyright Office first recognized software as a copyrightable work in 1980, but it wasn't until the early 1990s that the US Supreme Court definitively ruled that software was subject to copyright protection.

Software Programs Were Unprotected by Copyright Law Until the Early