Le 09/07/11 23:26, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi all,
Someone suggested I sling in some caselaw or other references on whether copyright protection is available for UIs : US Just one caselaw review : http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/crind.htm Europe In European Union Court of Justice Case C-393/09 : http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2011/03/24/protection-of-guis-graphical-user-interfaces-some-comments-about-the-ecj-%E2%80%98s-preliminary-ruling-in-bsa-v-ministervo-kultury/ involving the BSA against the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic relating tp television broadcasting of user interface. What the latter ruling states is that copyright is not available under the Computer Program Copyright Directive 91/250/EEC, as that is intended to protect code per se. However, copyright is available for UIs under the more general Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC, providing that they meet the criteria for awarding copyright, i.e. originality, author's own work, etc. So to all those naysayers who think that no-one sues anyone else over UI elements - wake up, and take stock. Am I paranoid ? No, but people do get sued. Do I represent the BSA ? No, but I know "peers" that do, and believe me, love it or hate it, the BSA do sue people. Please, by all means, get an opinion, hell, get several opinions, most likely they will all be as different as there are different states in the world. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
