29th November 2011
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European court advisor slams software copyrights
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11...d_programming/
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A senior court advisor has issued an opinion to the European Court of Justice that software functions cannot be copyrighted.
"If it were accepted that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such, that would amount to making it possible to monopolize ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development," wrote advocate-general Yves Bot in his opinion, as quoted by Reuters.
Bot's opinion was in reference to the long-running suit brought by the US-based business-analytics software company SAS Institute against the UK's World Programming Ltd, an SAS toolmaker.
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