Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber), 2 May 2012

SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (Chancery Division)

Intellectual property — Directive 91/250/EEC — Legal protection of computer programs — Articles 1(2) and 5(3) — Scope of protection — Creation directly or via another process — Computer program protected by copyright — Reproduction of the functions by a second program without access to the source code of the first program — Decompilation of the object code of the first computer program — Directive 2001/29/EC — Copyright and related rights in the information society — Article 2(a) — User manual for a computer program — Reproduction in another computer program — Infringement of copyright — Condition — Expression of the intellectual creation of the author of the user manual

Case C‑406/10

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