The CJEU confirms that copyright protection for computer programs under the Software Directive is limited to the expression of the program in the form of source and object code, and does not cover ...

But back to that definition of a computer program; although highly functional, software code contains that “set of instructions” – which, under U.S. law, has been held to constitute an ...

Europe’s highest court has ruled that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright The Court of Justice of the EU went on to say in its ...

CJEU: no copyright for computer program functionality. If you don't have a login or your access has expired, you will need to purchase a subscription to gain access to this article, including all our ...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google over Oracle in a major copyright battle, ruling that Google’s copying of a portion of the Java SE computer program is protected as “fair use.” The ruling ...

However, software has been afforded full copyright protection in Europe since 1993 when a harmonising directive - Directive of 14 May 1991 on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs which was re ...