{"id":190916,"date":"2009-10-15T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/15\/court-reaffirms-right-of-first-sale-for-software\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:11:00","slug":"court-reaffirms-right-of-first-sale-for-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/15\/court-reaffirms-right-of-first-sale-for-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Reaffirms Right of First Sale for Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And once again, the plaintiff trying to claim that software is a license, and not a physical product is Autodesk, and the court just ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2009\/10\/06\/software_ownership_ruling\/\">the software in question had been legally purchased from a legal licensee, and that the purchaser had an absolute right to then resell the software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;The Autodesk License is a hodgepodge of terms that, standing alone, support both a transfer of ownership and a mere license,&#8221; said the ruling. &#8220;Autodesk expressly retains title to the &#8216;Software and accompanying materials,&#8217; but it has no right to regain possession of the software or the &#8216;accompanying materials&#8217;. Licensees pay a single up-front price for the software. Autodesk can require the destruction of the software, but only as consideration in the later purchase of an upgrade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court concludes that Wise leads to the conclusion that the transfer of AutoCAD copies via the License is a transfer of ownership,&#8221; it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EFF is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/10\/it-s-still-duck-court-re-affirms-first-sale-doctri\">crowing about this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And once again, the plaintiff trying to claim that software is a license, and not a physical product is Autodesk, and the court just ruled that the software in question had been legally purchased from a legal licensee, and that the purchaser had an absolute right to then resell the software: &#8220;The Autodesk License is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1134,1109,972,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-copyright","category-ip","category-justice","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}