In its recent judgment in Sony Interactive Entertainment v. Datel, the CJEU ruled on the specific copyright protection of computer programs under Directive 2009/24/EC (Case C‑159/23). The CJEU ...

The Atari Games court reasoned that because 17 U.S.C. § 101 provides that, “[a] ‘computer program’ is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in ...

Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface; and 2) Whether Google’s use of a software interface in the context of creating a new computer program constitutes fair use.

In the last decade or two, there have been significant advances in cloud computing, the provision of software-implemented services (Software-as-a-Service or SaaS) and web-based applications. These ...

Software is a set of instructions, written in computer code, that tells a computer how to behave or how to perform a specific task. Software usually comes in the form of commercial programs (like ...

European software developers may be smirking today. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled yesterday that functions performed by computer programs are not entitled to copyright protection.

The program will serve as a resource to inform society about innovations related to the production and uses of computers and software. Vision. Graduates of the Department of Computer Science and ...

When Herrington returned to the company in 2014 he was required to sign a confidentiality agreement. In that he agreed he would not copy, publish, convey, disclose nor use, directly or indirectly ...

Dr. Cheryl Frederick. Dr. Cheryl Frederick, executive director of STEM programs at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), said computer programming is a collaborative process, with a variety of ...

While copyright and copyright infringement are complicated and fraught with uncertainty, probably, at the very least, the unauthorised display of GUI works on the computer of a user of a web-based ...