Identify components, extract a firmware, uncompile a binary, clone an application: lawyers show that AI blows up the implicit filter on which business and copyright were based.
Most of the legislation allowed retro-engineering, but it did not mean that it was expensive: it took time, money and experts, which was enough to distinguish the legitimate analysis of a product from pure and simple copying. In a research article, four law and computer specialists, including Sebastian Benthall, believe that the general AI is eliminating this safeguard.
A legal balance to be reconsidered
AI tools now know how to recognize the components of an electronic card, extract a firmware, uncompile object code or reproduce an entire application, much faster and much cheaper than before. The authors anticipate an arm of arms between manufacturers and retro-enginers that will energize business secrecy, copyright, anti-circumvention rules of technical protections, repression of computer intrusion and contract law.
The article maps these new practices in terms of existing law and outlines several possible responses from the legislator and the courts, detailing what each would gain or lose, between the protection of innovation and the freedom to study, repair or make interoperable the products that one possesses.
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