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 ...

Europe’s highest court ruled in May that copyright protection does not extend to the functionality of a computer program or its programming language.

In the case of Microsoft v ATEC Computer, (Thai Supreme Court Judgment No 4301/2543 (2000)), the Thai Supreme Court had set a controversial landmark by reversing the judgment of the Central ...

The essential protection of software stems from intellectual property rights, primarily copyright. When the UK left the European Union (EU), at a superficial level nothing changed because the essence ...