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104 Cornell L. Rev. 1183 (2018-2019)
The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy

handle is hein.journals/clqv104 and id is 1225 raw text is: THE PARADOX OF SOURCE CODE SECRECY Sonia K. Katyaljt INTRODUCTION .......................................... 1184 i. SOURCE CODE SECRECY AND COPYRIGHT ............ 1191 A. Code: An Introductory (and Incomplete) H istory ...................................... 1193 B. The Birth of Source Code Secrecy ............ 1195 C. The Copyrightability of Software ............. 1198 1. Early Accommodations of Trade Secrecy .. 1201 2. Copyrighting Code ....................... 1203 D. The Continuing Overlap Between Copyright and Trade Secrecy ........................... 1207 1I. THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF SOFTWARE PATENTABILITY .................................... 1210 A. Patentability vs. Secrecy ..................... 1212 B. The Rise and Fall of Software Patentability ... 1216 1. The Opening of the Window of Patentability ............................. 1218 2. Narrowing the Window of Patentability .... 1222 II. TRADE SECRECY AS DESTINATION .................... 1225 A. The Lingering Monopoly of Trade Secrecy .... 1227 B. Judicial Accommodation in Kewanee ........ 1229 C. Rethinking Complementarity in Software ..... 1232 IV. DUE PROCESS IN AN AGE OF DELEGATION ............. 1236 A. The Rise of Closed Code Governance ......... 1237 t Haas Distinguished Chair and Chancellor's Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Many, many thanks to the following for comments and conversation: Ken Bamberger, Ash Bhagwat, Andrew Bradt, Ari Chivukula, Ryan Calo, Christian Chessman, Danielle Citron, Jim Dempsey, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Charles Duan, Jeanne Fromer, Jim Gibson, Tait Graves, Ken Goldberg, Sue Glueck, James Grimmelmann, Zachary Hecht, Molly van Houweling, John Hamasaki, Gautam Hans, Chris Hoofnagle, Brett Kaufman, Neal Katyal, Logan Koepke, Joshua Kroll, Prasad Krlshnamurthy, Amanda Levandowski, David Le- vine, Matk Lemley, Peter Menell, Robert Merges, Deirdre Mulligan, Tejas Narechania, Helen Nissenbaum, Claudia Polsky, Julia Powles, David Robinson, Andrea Roth, Bertrall Ross, Simone Ross, Pamela Samuelson, Sharon Sandeen, Andrew Selbst, Jason Schultz, Jonathan Simon, Vincent Southerland, Erik Stall- man, Katherine Strandburg, Joseph Turow, Rebecca Wexler, Felix Wu, and John Yoo. A very sincere thanks to my colleague Bob Cooter, whose question at a workshop sparked this Article, and the organizers and participants of the Confer- ence on Trade Secrets & Algorithmic Systems held at New York University Law School in November 2018. Joe Cera, Renata Barreto, Andrea Hall, and Aniket Kesari provided extraordinary research assistance. 1183

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