The Perspective Of Copyright Of Computer Software Reverse Engineering Law Studies

As a special intellectual property and an important intangible asset in the Internet era, computer software involves in power and interest distribution problems more and more obviously. Software Reverse-engineering which acts as a method to balance interests of all parties has its two sides:it has the advantages of increasing software compatibility and filtering software mistakes, while some minorities obtain software information through Reverse-engineering for pirate and unjust competition. So, software Reverse-engineering becomes a research hotpot at present, many researchers hold the opinion that software Reverse-engineering should be evaluated as legitimate in copyright law and be regulated.The paper contains six parts:The first part is an introduction to concise the concept, purpose and meaning of software reverse engineering.The second part is an overview of Software Reverse-engineering. It demonstrates the concepts and purposes, explores the value and meaning, discusses the rationality of Software Reverse-engineering under the copyright law system, analyses the conformities between copyright law and software Reverse-engineering and the unconformities between other regulations and software Reverse-engineering.The third part commences with the legality of reverse engineering and the problems that exists in the implementation in practical cases. This part leads this engineering to legal field.The forth part focuses on the observation about the foreign laws of the software Reverse-engineering and introduces foreign laws, international convention and specific cases in the angle of specification to search the standards of fair regulations in copy law that are used in the Software Reverse-engineering and the effectiveness when facing with technical measures and prohibition items.The fifth part concludes the existing laws and the corresponding problems, points out the shortcomings of the legislation of computer Software Reverse-engineering of our country, comes up with revision suggestions and builds an integrated legal system for Software Reverse-engineering under the copyright law system.The sixth part is the conclusion part. It aims at demonstrating the promotion that Software Reverse-engineering does to the domestic computer software industry, thus more attention should be paid on this engineering. Moreover, completing relevant laws for Software Reverse-engineering to fully solve the legal issues about it in our domestic legal texts is also an important aspect.