tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post3430574784410726338..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Graphic user interfaces: expressions in any form of a computer program?Marie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-43218006777918306702010-12-21T01:16:05.141+00:002010-12-21T01:16:05.141+00:00Can anyone fix my confusion, please?
I always trea...Can anyone fix my confusion, please?<br />I always treat the GUI as an element of a computer program (part of the program).<br /><br />1. what does this mean "a form of expression of a computer program"<br />2. from Case C-393/09, does that mean "GUI is part(element) of the program"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-36320702619561757592010-10-15T01:40:06.667+01:002010-10-15T01:40:06.667+01:00Hope this helps :) I have translated it from the C...Hope this helps :) I have translated it from the Czech version (sorry for possible mistakes).<br /><br />1. The graphical user interface is not a form of expression of a computer program within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Council Directive 91/250/EEC 1 of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs, and is not covered by protection conferred in this directive.<br /><br />2. If the graphical user interface is own intellectual creation of the author, it will be protected as a work within the meaning of Article 2(a) of European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC 2 of 22 May 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society.<br /><br />3. The television broadcasting of the graphical user interface is not the making a work available to public within the meaning of Article 3(1) of European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC 2 of 22 May 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, since the broadcasting causes that graphical user interface looses it's nature of a work within the meaning of Article 2 a) of this directive.<br /><br />All the best,<br />Huťko<br /><br />http://husovec.blogspot.com/2010/10/ga-delivered-its-opinion-in-c-39309.html (with link to background)Huťkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385257405994833051noreply@blogger.com