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Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed


From: Rui Maciel
Subject: Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:59:01 +0100
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Robert Heller wrote:

> I think that the point of the citizen.org case (eBay vender vs
> Autodesk), is that if you have A copy in your possesion, you have the
> right to dispose of that copy (eg selling it).  

By "dispose of that copy" you could've instead said "transfer your license to 
another third party".


> This is distint from
> *making a copy* of the copy.  The only way this is a copyright
> infringement would be if you also had *made a copy* of the software
> (which would probably include the copy made when installing the
> software).

Exactly.


Rui Maciel


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