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The request has been made in proceedings between Top System SA and the
Belgian State concerning the decompilation by SELOR, the Selection
Office of the Federal Authorities (Belgium), of a computer program
developed by Top System and forming part of an application in respect of
which that selection office holds a user licence.
[...]
By its first question, the referring court asks, in essence, whether
Article 5(1) of Directive 91/250 must be interpreted as meaning that the
lawful purchaser of a computer program is entitled to decompile all or
part of that program in order to correct errors affecting the operation
of that program, including where the correction consists in disabling a
function that is affecting the proper operation of the application of
which the program forms a part.
[...]
In the light of the foregoing considerations, the answer to the first
question referred is that Article 5(1) of Directive 91/250 must be
interpreted as meaning that the lawful purchaser of a computer program
is entitled to decompile all or part of that program in order to correct
errors affecting its operation, including where the correction consists
in disabling a function that is affecting the proper operation of the
application of which that program forms a part.
[...]
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