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Simply because a new software product produces the same results, operates in a similar fashion or looks similar to pre-existing software does not mean that the copyright in that original software has been infringed.
When the owner of a sophisticated business data analysis software package discovered new software that emulated a great deal of the functionality of its own product, it alleged that the new product infringed its copyright.
One particularly interesting aspect of the claim was the allegation that the new software had used the technical manuals for the original software as a technical specification and had substantially copied them.
In its ruling, the Court of Appeal commented that ‘It is a cliché of copyright law that copyright does not protect ideas: it protects the expression of ideas’.