LEGAL FOUNDATION 2004
JULY 2004 Print E-mail
 
 

´NO RESTRICTIONS IN RESALE OF SOFTWARE

Used software licences are not just legally beyond reproach, they also make clear efficiency gains possible for companies. That is the conclusion made by the  "Retail Technology Journal" of the Euro Trade Institute EHI. Among others the article "Tradeable goods without expiration date" reflects the motives of usedSoft customers for the purchase of used software licences.


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MAY 2003 Print E-mail
 

COMPUTERWOCHE: DEVELOPER ENDORSEMENTS IN SOFTWARE LICENCE CONTRACTS ARE FREQUENTLY INEFFICIENT

Restrictions imposed by software developers on their customers – e.g. CPU clauses and ulitisation restraints for update and school versions – are judged by courts with scepticism. This is what Sebastian Wündisch, attorney-at-law and assistant professor for Media and IT Law at Dresden University writes in Computerwoche. According to the lawyer, due to the "Exhaustion Rule" the purchasers of software can resell the merchandise without any limitations.  

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Computerwoche Online
Edition 10/2006
"Court Decision confirms Resale of Microsoft Volume Licences"


Zeitschrift für Urheber und Medienrecht
Edition 04/2006
"Used software and exhaustion rule: Frame conditions of a second-hand market for software"


Computer Zeitung
Edition 26/2006
"Companies want Second-Hand licences"


Computer Zeitung
Edition 6/2006
"An artificial differentiation"


Deutscher Vertriebs- und Verkaufs-Anzeiger
Edition April 2006
"Why does software have to be expensive? No wearout guaranteed: " Used" software"
 
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