解读我国首例软件捆绑销售案

Looking into the First Case of Software Bundle in China

2006年、2月、3日，上海高级人民法院对一起计算机软件着作权侵权纠纷案作出终审判决，认为原告为将其开发的应用软件捆绑在自己生产的产品上使用而专门设计的输出文件格式，已经超出了《著作权法》规定的技术保护措施的范围，被告破解该软件输出数据文件格式的行为不属侵权行为。本案是自我国2001年修改《著作权法》以来，第一起涉及利用技术保护措施实现产品捆绑销售的案件。该判决对今后类似案件的审理，以及未来相关产业的有序发展具有深远的指导意义。

On 13 December 2006, the Shanghai Higher People＇s Court rendered its final ruling in a case of dispute arising from infringement of copyright in computer software, holding that the plaintiff specially designed an output document format for bundling its own developed application for use in the product it has made, and this act had gone beyond the scope of technological protection measures provided for in the Copyright Law, and that defendant＇s act of circumventing the output data document format of said software was not an infringement. This is the first case of using technological protective measure for product bundle in China ever since the amended Copyright Law entered into force in 2001. The ruling is of far-reaching significance in guiding the courts to hear similar cases and for the orderly development of the related industry in China.