Reverse Engineering:
Reverse engineering is when a person or company takes a product that has been designed by a competing company and takes it apart, in order to break down exactly what the product is and how it works. This makes it possible for the company to build their own product using the exact same steps and design as the competing company but just to change a little something about it so that it is not necessarily stealing their product. A really simple example of this would be to try an amazing dish. Take the recipe from the person study the food and see what is inside and go home and make it but adding one extra spice so technically you are not stealing the cheif's master piece.
Reverse engineering is techincally legal because yes they are similar but their is something on the new product that makes them different and you used people that knew nothing about the first product. That is if you strip it down to the law exactly but in my opinion it is not legal. In no way shape, or form did the company come up with this product, they robbed the inventors and giving them no credit! That is like taking a song from an artist and changing the chorus and changing the beat here and there and calling it your own. That is not morally right or legal because the artist owns right to that song.
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What does the DMCA say about Reverse Engineering?
ReplyDeleteSection 1201(f) of the DMCA states that "a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs."