INTRODUCTION
Manual to digital the shift has made the entire humanity to enjoy the software cradles to work themselves to obtain a particular target. In the antique days the entire work had progressively completed manually which mutatis mundatis introduced machine work which was swept away by the software technology. Now the status has arrived that a person can control whole work going on in another place through his personal computer. All the software has developed from the human intellect so it must be regarded as an intellectual property. But condition of tangibility mentioned in the theory of IP has made the courts confused to put it under the title intellectual property. This article covers brief idea on software; copy right, Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 and important case laws with US origin.