Computer technology plays an extremely important role in modern society and it seems that this role will be still more important in the future. The study aims to protect the computer programs, also known as software, is essential in order to encourage the creation of programs and safeguard the considerable investment represented by such programs, which breathe life into the mere hardware, the "clever morons”. This study used the comparative method for follow-up of the new legislations mainly Indian, English, French and Jordan legislations, and the decisions of courts and jurisprudence, and it is hope that the analytical study of this subject will be reflected in turn relevant legislations and the most important legal issues, created by the use of computer. As for the position of the Jordanian legislature, it has been empty for a long period of the law of copyright protection, so that the great voices started calling for the enactment of a law to protect copyright, that Law No. (22) 1992, which can put the protection of literary works. This research deals with the most important legal issues, created by the use of computer: identification of computer programs and its legal nature, if are they works subject to protection under the Copyright law, or are they inventions that can be protected under industrial property, such as those for Patents.