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by avmich 3427 days ago
I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I would definitely like to know what's the difference between "structure, sequence and organization of a computer program" and the algorithm behind that program? As I understand, algorithm is in the realm of ideas, which are not copyrightable.

It would be sad if courts accepted a technically ambiguous approach effectively deciding arbitrarily which case is what.