Reverse engineering gets the nod in new New Zealand Copyright Bill draft, however consumers have rea

“Consumers still have reasons to be fearful of proposed new copyright legislation, but for inventors and adapters of technology, the outcome is looking brighter. Consumer champions have protested that Parliament’s Commerce Select Committee, while upholding format-shifting for copyright works in new legislation, has also allowed copyright-owners to contract out of the law. However, adaptors’ and inventors’ rights have been protected against just such contracting out in another part of the draft legislation, concerning “reverse engineering” — the exploration of a computer program’s workings for the purpose of creating an enhanced competitor or a program to interface with the original program….”

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