Brussels, 04/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - The functionality of a computer programme and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright and neither can the format of data files used in programming to run some of the program, which cannot be seen as a form of expression, ruled the European Court of Justice on 2 May 2012 (Ruling C-406/10), in answer to a question raised by the High Court of Justice in England, which wanted to know whether the copyright granted to computer programmes...