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SA Supreme Court software copyright case

The South African Supreme Court (SCA) has decided a illustration on copyright inward reckoner programs, IOL reports. Anton Haput developed the Data Explorer software as well as claimed that his copyright inward this was infringed past times the All Media Products Survey software. The SCA held that the author of AMPS had copied a substantial piece of work of the Data Explorer source code because he constitute it equally good hard to write himself. The courtroom held that substantiality is a qualitative, rather than quantitative enquiry as well as that the AMPS author had taken a peculiarly valuable piece of work of the Data Explorer source code.

A quick glance at the judgment shows that the courtroom also deals alongside originality, authorship as well as reckoner generated works.

says this essay out of substantiality sounds jolly sensible, although qualitative taking is to a greater extent than hard to assess objectively than quantitative taking. Readers should greenback that this appears to endure a direct source code copying case, rather than a ‘look as well as feel’ case.

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Word IP Day event

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