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Licence to sell
Pitmans LLP - European Union -
July 6 2012
Software suppliers suffer second setback.
Usedsoft v Oracle: an intelligible guide for non-IP-lawyers
- Collyer Bristow LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- November 27 2012
The most significant IPIT case since our last edition of IP Matters isUsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International.
Licence to sell Part 2
- Pitmans LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- September 11 2012
In our last update we discussed the issues surrounding re-selling digital licences and the effect that this will have on both software suppliers and licensees.
Open source software: the top 10 open source licences
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- January 28 2009
Readers of Computers & Law should be familiar with open source software.
Software sale or software licence? US appeals court draws the line in Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc. appeal
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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- Canada
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- November 11 2010
For software developers seeking to protect copyright in their works, a recent appeals court decision underscores the importance of carefully drafting shrink-wrap agreements so that those agreements are construed as licences and not sales agreements.
Open-source software
- Kennedys
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- United Kingdom
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- May 24 2012
The open-source software (OSS) movement is currently undergoing a renaissance.
Software publishers can prevent resale of bare licences and back-up copies of used software
- Bird & Bird
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- Germany
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- October 27 2009
Three German Courts of Appeal have held that the distribution of used software is only permitted if the copyright holder consents or if the software is distributed in the same physical form (i.e. on the media) in which it was initially put on the market.
Software copyright new developments in the UK
- Mayer Brown LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- February 28 2013
The UK Courts have recently decided a high-profile software copyright case, following clarification on some key issues from the European Court. The
Recent cases should make software licensors review their distribution methods and license terms (and they may even make us look at open source licenses in a different way)
- Andrews Kurth LLP
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- USA
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- July 21 2011
Three recent copyright cases from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., 621 F.3d 1102 (9th Cir. 2010), UMG Recordings Inc. v. Augusto, 628 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2010) and MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., 629 F.3d 928 (9th Cir. 2011), underscore how methods of distribution and license terms can be mutually reinforcing or, alternatively, mutually destructive.
The end of the shrink-wrap license?
- Venable LLP
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- USA
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- June 30 2010
Who owns the software running on your computer?