2.2 Intellectual Property on Computer Software

The software's protection: the COPYRIGHT route (the code as the LITERARY WORK (the TRIPS Article 10's confirmation (the Berne world's craft)): the expression's protection (the code — NOT the idea (the algorithm's-and-the functionality's exclusion (the idea-expression dichotomy's software face)))); the bundle (the reproduction's bar (the copying's-and-the distribution (the rental faces))); the licence's world (the proprietary vs the open-source (the GPL-type licensing craft (the contract's terms))); the PIRACY's face (the unlicensed copying's scale (Nepal's software-piracy reality (the CAN's-and-the enforcement's faces (LAW 509's U5 world)))); the limits' craft (the reverse engineering's-and-the interoperability's exceptions (the decompilation's allowance)).