| (1) | Where any person who uses a program with legitimate authority or any person who has obtained his/her permission cannot easily obtain necessary information for compatibility and it is inevitable for him/her to obtain the information, he/she may perform decompilation of program codes without obtaining permission of the holder of author’s economic right of the program limited to necessary part for compatibility of the relevant program. |
| (2) | Where information obtained through decompilation of program codes under paragraph (1) falls under any of the following subparagraphs, it shall not be used: |
| 1. | Where information is exploited for the purpose other than the purpose of compatibility or is provided to a third party; |
| 2. | Where a program or expression subject to a reverse engineering of program code is exploited in development, production and sale of substantially similar programs or in infringement of copyright of the program. |
[This Article Added by Act No. 9625, Apr. 22, 2009]