SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming: Difference between revisions

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:3. Article 2(a) of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society must be interpreted as meaning that the reproduction, in a computer program or a user manual for that program, of certain elements described in the user manual for another computer program protected by copyright is capable of constituting an infringement of the copyright in the latter manual if – this being a matter for the national court to ascertain – that reproduction constitutes the expression of the intellectual creation of the author of the user manual for the computer program protected by copyright.

The case returned to the High Court of England and Wales forwhich provided it to provide's final judgement<ref>[http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2013/69.html Final High Court Judgement]</ref> on 25 January 2013 applying the CJEU findings to the particular facts of this case.

== Additional US lawsuit==