Category: Contracts

The High Court has offered helpful guidance on what illegal reverse engineering is and the scope of the Software Directive’s statutory exceptions to software copyright protection outlined in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the CDPA) in the case of IBM United Kingdom Ltd v. LzLabs GmbH and others [2025] EWHC 532 (TCC).

Overview A licence agreement (the ICA) was signed by IBM and Winsopia, a LzLabs subsidiary, for the use of IBM’s mainframe software and other products

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