Back in 2010 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was faced with an intriguing question with regards the legal protection of graphical user interfaces (GUI) – Case C-393/09 Bezpečnostní softwarová asociace – Svaz softwarové ochrany v Ministerstvo kultury. The question raised before the CJEU was whether a GUI can be protected as…Continue reading The legal protection of graphical user interfaces

What is an API? In simple terms, an API (Application Programming Interface) is a software intermediary that allows applications to talk to each other. For example, when you see a snippet with the weather forecast on the home screen of your mobile phone, this happens through an API which facilitates sourcing the weather data from…Continue reading On APIs, copyright protection and the fair use doctrine