Amendments of Part I (copyright) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

7 Exclusion of decompilation of computer programs from fair dealing
In section 29 (research and private study), after subsection (3) insert—

“(4) It is not fair dealing—
(a) to convert a computer program expressed in a low level language into a version expressed in a higher level language, or
(b) incidentally in the course of so converting the program, to copy it,
(these acts being permitted if done in accordance with section 50B (decompilation)).”

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