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 ...

The Situation: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") ruled that modifying temporary variables in the working memory of a computer without enabling the reproduction or further execution ...

In a jury room in San Francisco, jurors in Oracle, Inc. v. Google, Inc. have been toiling over complicated issues related to the copyrightability of the Java computer programming language, and they ...

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

“While ‘there is a sense in which all computer code could be described as a method of operating a computer…the Copyright Act as a whole makes clear that ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google over Oracle in a major copyright battle, ruling that Google’s copying of a portion of the Java SE computer program is protected as “fair use.” The ruling ...