An excerpt: The Court (Grand Chamber) hereby rules:
1. Article 1(2) of Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs must be interpreted as meaning that*neither the functionality of a computer program nor the programming language and the format of data files used in a computer program in order to exploit certain of its functions constitute a form of expression of that program and, as such, are not protected by copyright* in computer programs for the purposes of that directive. The ECJ today ruled that the programming code behind a piece of software is not a form of expression and therefore cannot be copyrighted. Link to ruling: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=122362&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=110132 -- Ali Sternburg [email protected] Harvard College, Class of 2009 American University Washington College of Law, J.D. Candidate Class of 2012 http://www.alisternburg.com
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