Stanley Lai, The Copyright Protection of Computer Software in the United Kingdom , Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000, xxvii + 250 pp. (hb £40).
David Booton · 2002
Abstract This book sets out to investigate the scope of copyright protection for computer software in the United Kingdom. The work’s stated aim is ‘to make a reasoned and well-argued case for the incorporation of US infringement methodology into UK software copyright analysis’ (p.1). In addition, the book seeks to clarify the scope of copyright protection and, as well as addressing infringement methodology, there is also consideration of the legal issues that surround the practice of reverse engineering together with consideration of the defences to infringement as these apply particularly to copyright in software.