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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 01:50 PM EDT |
| Wasn't copyright on computer programs in the UK introduced in the 1988 Act? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 09:23 PM EDT |
You're from the UK IIRC, yes?
Did you look at SAS v. WPL, referenced above?
IIRC it's primarily a reverse engineering and clean room implementation case
that has been dragging on for years now. Most of it is a needless waste of time
IMHO, and in many ways similar to Oracle v. Google.
It's a perfect illustration of the problems that software copyright causes in
places with no software patents.
IMHO there are fewer issues in the UK to some degree because of who pays costs,
and also because of the existence of Technology and Construction Court division
of the High Court (everyone needs a technology list of judges!).
The judge in SAS v. WPL was a scientist of some kind (I can't remember which)
before he became a lawyer (and I believe that he personally argued the precedent
that he relied most heavily on in his decision). Even so he couldn't just toss
most of the case on summary judgement.
The fact that you can bring a copyright infringement suit along those lines is
enough of a weapon for an established company with money to keep potential
competitors out of the market unless they come with deep pockets.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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