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Originally Posted by sigur_ros
Yes, computer software protected by copyright law, section 102 of copyright law I repeat here again.
"In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."
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Article 10 paragraph 1 of TRIPs provides that a computer program is a type of work which is eligible for protection under copyright law:
"Computer programs, whether in source or object code, shall be protected as literary works under the Berne Convention (1971)."
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Article 27 paragraph 1 of TRIPs states that:
"(...) patents shall be available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application. (...) patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the place of invention, the field of technology and whether products are imported or locally produced."