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EU to Allow Digital Software Resales?

[Jul 03, 2012, 11:13 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

This document (Adobe Acrobat format) outlines a legal ruing in the EU that seems to open the door for resale of digitally distributed software (thanks Joao). Here's a bit:

Where the copyright holder makes available to his customer a copy – tangible or intangible – and at the same time concludes, in return form payment of a fee, a licence agreement granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited period, that rightholder sells the copy to the customer and thus exhausts his exclusive distribution right. Such a transaction involves a transfer of the right of ownership of the copy. Therefore, even if the licence agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of that copy.

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Re: EU to Allow Digital Software Resales?

Jul 3, 2012, 13:37

Dagnamit

zombiefan wrote on Jul 3, 2012, 12:07: It'll never happen in this country (the U.S.). Valve simply has too much money; they could buy any judge ten times over. It'll never happen because it's a ridiculous decision. You people need to get over this. Game companies have been selling "licenses" for their games since the beginning. You've never owned the game, you only held the media in your possession in some physical form (cartridge, CD, DVD). That has made secondary distribution systems possible. You didn't make the game. You don't own it. Why can't you just buy a game in the hopes that it will be worth the money? Why do you need to get something else out of it?

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Comment [quote="Dagnamit"Jul 3, 2012, 13:37][quote="zombiefan"Jul 3, 2012, 12:07]It'll never happen in this country (the U.S.). Valve simply has too much money; they could buy any judge ten times over. [/quote] It'll never happen because it's a ridiculous decision. You people need to get over this. Game companies have been selling "licenses" for their games since the beginning. You've never owned the game, you only held the media in your possession in some physical form (cartridge, CD, DVD). That has made secondary distribution systems possible. You didn't make the game. You don't own it. Why can't you just buy a game in the hopes that it will be worth the money? Why do you need to get something else out of it? [/quote]

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