Code as a literary work: Following lengthy discussion in the 1970s and 1980s, by 1991 in the EU and 1994 at the WTO level, the legal status of computer programs was a settled matter: software was to be treated under copyright as a literary work. Source code and object code are protected by copyright. As established in the seminal case C-406/10, SAS: … (more)
[Nuno Sousa e Silva, The IPKat, 5 November 2024]
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