Nick Allen

Copyright laws have been around for hundreds of years and haven't changed all that much. And so yes, putting software as a whole into the laws of copyright was a bit of a fudge. Treating it as a literary work, it's how it's termed, just in the same way as you might a book or some song lyrics. But a software product, particularly an audiovisual work like a video game, is so much more than simply the lines of source code and object code.