التكييف القانوني لعقود استغلال البضائع الرقمية : عقود برامج الحاسب الآلي نموذجا

Abstract EN

In the scope of electronic commerce, a new term has appeared recently.

Obviously, this refers to products traded in the virtual world, or the world of internet.

Contracts in such trades contain some specific characteristics, which give them privacy from other known contracts.

Such characteristics include: 1) the contracting method, which is the electronic contract.

2) the contract responds to a digital products consisting mainly of zero and one, as the contract will be executed electronically.

There are many types of digital products, including music, movies, files that contain databases, multimedia files, and most importantly computer programs.

The later have an important financial value that cost millions of dollars nowadays.

Therefore, software programs have become the subject of many contracts.

However, the legal nature of such contracts is not clear.

One of the main reasons is the nature of the computer software, which falls within the scope of intellectual property, as it is subject to the laws of copyright.

In addition, such contracts could be considered contract for work, lease, sale or license contract, which has become very common recently.

This research found that software programs, as a type of digital products, are considered to be money and, accordingly, all the above mentioned contract could be applied on it according to its nature.