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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, 22:09

SimplyMonk

^Drag0n^ wrote on Jul 3, 2012, 19:46: That is actually a horribly flawed argument. Perhaps I attacked the problem in the wrong way and used too confusing of examples. I was merely trying to point out that just because you can sell bookends in the used market and the bookend industry doesn't suffer for it does not mean the same holds true for all industries, especially media which has a completely different set of design and manufacturing costs/processes. That was my entire point. I was not trying to say one way or the other that the media used market was good or bad. Just that bookends aren't video games so comparing the two is, at the very root, is flawed logic. Mr. Tact wrote on Jul 3, 2012, 20:15: Ok, thank you. Now I understand where the confusion is. Apparently you missed it earlier when I said. Ugh. I didn't. I was just trying to say that you can't compare the two industries. Sorry. I choose bad examples to get my point across.

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Comment [quote="SimplyMonk"Jul 3, 2012, 22:09][quote="^Drag0n^"Jul 3, 2012, 19:46] That is actually a horribly flawed argument.[/quote] Perhaps I attacked the problem in the wrong way and used too confusing of examples. I was merely trying to point out that just because you can sell bookends in the used market and the bookend industry doesn't suffer for it does not mean the same holds true for all industries, especially media which has a completely different set of design and manufacturing costs/processes. That was my entire point. I was not trying to say one way or the other that the media used market was good or bad. Just that bookends aren't video games so comparing the two is, at the very root, is flawed logic. [quote="Mr. Tact"Jul 3, 2012, 20:15] Ok, thank you. Now I understand where the confusion is. Apparently you missed it earlier when I said.[/quote] Ugh. I didn't. I was just trying to say that you can't compare the two industries. Sorry. I choose bad examples to get my point across. [/quote]

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