The software
Computer Software is the information or information used by one or more computer systems and stored on one or more computer media. This information can therefore be represented by one or more programs, by one or more data, or by a combination of the two.
The Software is protected by Copyright. Computer programs are protected as “literary works” provided they are original as the result of the author’s intellectual creation”.
The object of protection is the program both in source form and in object form, but also “the preparatory material for the design of the program itself”.