PROTECŢIA PROGRAMELOR PENTRU CALCULATOR ÎN UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ

Abstract

Stemming from its strategic interest of promoting innovation through research and developmentand especially the protection-for-dissemination of innovation-related intellectual property rights, the European Unionhas constantly tried to balance the interests of software producers and thefreedoms necessary to researchers forincremental innovation. The 1991 Directive for the protection of computer programs comes a long way into definingthe protection of computer programs as copyrightable subject matter and providing exceptions forinteroperability. The present article presents in short the main provisions of the Directive and sketches a longitudinalapproach in what its ulterior modlfications have brought insofar as to shed some light onto the EU9s perspectiveregarding the aforementioned balance.