Some reflections on the duality of regime for software protection in the European Union

Although the framework for protection of computer programs has been established in the European Union more than two decades ago, it has not undergone any major changes. Opinions of Advocate General Yves Bot have convinced the Court to advance the concept of the plurality of copyright regimes applicable to software: source code, object code and documentation would be protected under the Software Directive, whereas interfaces, programming languages, data formats and software manuals are dealt with as literary works under the InfoSoc Directive. In SAS Institute v WPL, the Court also ruled that copyright in a computer program cannot be infringed where the lawful acquirer of the license neither decompiled the object code nor copied the source code of the computer program, but merely studied, observed and tested that program in order to reproduce its functionality in a second program. This ruling paves the way and acknowledges the reverse engineering efforts on the Old Continent.     

海事纠纷中ADR的作用

解决海事纠纷常见方式是提交法院或通过仲裁途径 ,但实际上还存在另一种解决方式—— ADR方式。本文首先介绍了 ADR的概念并阐述了 ADR在海事案件中的优点 ,然后通过介绍具体案例解释 ADR在海事案件中的应用过程 ,最后展望了 ADR在以后国际商事中的发展趋势