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

Exclusion of decompilation of computer programs from fair dealing

7.  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)).”.