The European Court of Justice has concluded that the functions performed by software applications – from drawing a box to performing complex statistical analyses – cannot be protected by copyright, opening the way for competitors to launch products that carry out the same tasks as existing programs without infringing intellectual property rights.
“To accept that the functionality of a computer program can be protected by copyright would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the...
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