Abstract: With the development of informatization in the construction industry, the BIM technology has been rapidly popularized and implemented due to its unique advantages. However, as an evolving technology, BIM still faces many obstacles in the practical application. Among them, the legal issues have already attracted many attentions of researchers and practitioners, which, however, is lacking of corresponding research results in China. Thus, this paper adopts the method of literature review to analyze the legal issues existed in the BIM application in foreign countries from three aspects of ownership, responsibility and contract relationship, which will certainly lay a good foundation for the future research and judicial practice in this field in China.