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Abstract
The development and operation of automated data processing systems (ADPS) produce new and modify old relationships in which state, public, departmental, and personal interests intersect. In the process of developing a comprehensive system of norms governing the legal regulation of these relationships, it appears most rational to view all automated information in the form of three groups: software, intramachine, and extramachine. The first group includes scientific, organizational, and technical decisions relating to the development and effective functioning of ADPS; the second combines all functional information in the computer memory (in the working memory, in the external memory, and in files); the third includes information that is prepared to be fed into the computer and received after processing, i.e., input and output information. The first group of information presents two problems that are important from the standpoint of legal regulation: the regulation of relationships arising between the client and the designer, and copyright protection for the developers of ADPS.