In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss a recent decision in which the court partially granted and partially denied an injunction, while laying out the difference ...

In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft’s bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense, Eric Lundgren will spend 15 months in prison for selling discs that let people ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in favour of French software firm IT Development, which brought a case against its customer, Free Mobile, for copyright infringement. In June 2015, ...

In China, computer software is automatically protected under the Copyright Law upon its creation. This protection extends to both computer programs and their ...

The essential protection of software stems from intellectual property rights, primarily copyright. When the UK left the European Union (EU), at a superficial level nothing changed because the essence ...

Oracle’s long-running lawsuit against Google has raised two contentious questions. The first is whether application programming interfaces (APIs) should be copyrightable at all. The second is whether, ...

The software maker is struggling to make sure its online stores are clean, well-lighted places for apps, even as it readies the update to its Windows operating system. Nick Statt was a staff reporter ...

The case of artist Kristina Kashtanova changed my perspective on modern software development. In 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) ruled on her graphic novel ...

The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. The company, Bitmanagement Software GmbH, filed a complaint against the ...