The Cloud Era Of Third Party Plug-in Infringement Research

The network technology development changes rapidly in the cloudcomputing era, updating technology allows access to acquire resources morequickly, but also makes the tort become diverse.Network technical supportcannot do without software, the computer softwares bring economic benefitsand even get a significant market position for software copyright owners.Inorder to improve the function of the software, software developers reservedinterface in the development of the software, in order to ensure its own orthird party plugin developers can compatible and upgrade the software, sothe third party plugins have huge profits in the market.The software program and document should be protected by thecopyright law beyond doubt, but if other parts expect the software programand document should be protected, the third party plug-ins to modify theway exists dispute in the judicial practice. About the third party plug-ininfringement problem, scholars research mainly focus on if the third party plug-in infringe the right to alteration and the right of reproduction. Inpractice, software copyright owners sue for unfair competition usually, butfew of them sue for Infringement of the right of alteration and the right ofintegrity directly.With the progress of technology, it gives birth to the more varied andcomplex modification in cloud era, the protection of software copyrightowner’s imminent. This paper is going to based on "Chen Shou fu copyrightinfringement case" and "rainbow was IP software QQ software copyrightinfringement and unfair competition case" as examples to analyze the thirdparty plug-in infringement behavior of different types of, analysis of thirdparty plug-ins to host software copyright damage, tort liability, interpretationand the existing copyright law, software protection regulations deficiency,then put forward the corresponding revision opinion, in order to protect thecloud software copyright owner’s rights.