The Test for Proving Copyright Infringement of Computer Software: "Structure, Sequence, and Organization" and "Look and Feel" Cases
George N. Grammas · Mitchell Hamline Open Access (Hamline University) · 1998
For the first time the Copyright Act explicitly extended protection to computer software.Computer software infringement has since become one of the most widely litigated areas of copyright law.Perhaps the most pressing infringement issue is the separation of idea from expression, particularly in relation to nonliteral aspects of the computer program-the structure, sequence, and organization of the program and the look and feel of the program as perceived by the user.