US Court affirms right to sell used software
Posted by Mark Levitt in Computer Law, Copyright at May 23rd, 2008
(Via Ars Technica.)
With the help of Public Citizen, an eBay merchant has won the right to sell used copies of AutoCAD on eBay. Autodesk had sought to block the sale under the software’s license agreement, but a court ruled that such sales were legal under copyright’s First Sale Doctrine.
