Intellectual Property Protection Of Software Under Cloud Computing

Nowadays，sotfware has become a large-scale industry. Intellectual propertyprotection of sotfware has become a hot problem since the day that sotfware wasproduced. People rfom different countries that engaged in legal has pay so muchattention on the problem. From the eighties of the last century, under thepromotion of America, protecting sotfware by copyright laws has been the mostpopular ways around the world. However，different voices still exist. Somepeople still disagree with the protecting mode.With the development of technology, shortcomings of copyright protectionhas become more and more obvious. So, States began to seek ways to explore thesotfware patent protection. In some countries and regions, sotfware have begun tobe patentable, the patent protection of sotfware has been approved. In recentyears，the new rise of cloud computing services had a significant impact on thepropagation mode of the sotfware. It also brings great challenges to the copyrightsystem of sotfware.This article begins with the basic concepts of sotfware and cloud computingand analyzes shortcomings of traditional ways of sotfware protection under thecloud computing. This article focuses on the process of sotfware patent protectionin United States, Japan and European in the new technology age. By analyzingthe existing rules, the article summarizes advantages and disadvantages. Bylearning from foreign experience and combining with the specific features ofsotfware and cloud computing, this article puts forward that we can protect thesotfware under the cloud computing with patent and trade secrets. This articleintroduces present situation of sotfware protection in china and at last this articlegives suggestions to improve the status quo of China’s intellectual propertyprotection sotfware.