Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 05/02/2012

Subject: The Court affirmed that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright. The purchaser of a licence for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program.

Parties: SAS Institute Inc

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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