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Authored by: PJ on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 11:44 AM EDT |
You are right. In his proposed jury
instructions, the judge wrote:
It is my job to decide whether or
not the copyrights on the computer programs do or do not extend to protect the
structure, sequence and organization of the code of the programs. I will not be
able to decide this question until after your verdict. For purposes of your
deliberations, you must assume that the copyrights do cover the structure,
sequence and organization of the code. After discussions with the
lawyers for the parties it ended
up:
Another statutory limitation on the scope of a copyright is
that copyright never protects any procedure, process, system, method of
operation, concept, principle, or discovery. Possibly such things can be claimed
under the patent system or by trade secret laws but they may not be claimed by
copyright. For purposes of your deliberations, I instruct that the copyrights in
question do cover the structure, sequence and organization of the compilable
code. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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