SAS Asks EU Court for Software Copyright Protection in Dispute
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SAS Institute Inc. asked the European Union’s highest court to extend copyright protection to computer programs in a case that may limit the ability of companies to work with competing software.
World Programming Ltd. infringed SAS’s copyright by developing a system seeking to imitate SAS’s system by copying from the company’s manuals, SAS told the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg today. The case seeks to clarify the scope of copyright protection where software copies the functions of a competing program without access to its source code.