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EU Court Adviser Says Software Ideas Can't Be Copyrighted
bhagwad writes "The EU continues to ooze common sense as a court insists that software functions themselves cannot be copyrighted. Drawing a box or moving cursor are examples. To quote: '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.'" Note that this is a "non-binding opinion by Yves Bot, an advocate-general at the Luxembourg-based EU Court of Justice,"
and that the court "will rule on the case next year."
Rectangles with rounded corners are still safe.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
His name may make them a little suspicious.
A kink in your armor, you British Scum.
Channel Steve Jobs much?
There are Packers fans in Europe?
Does the box have rounded corners?