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Can you legally re-sell your digital music files?
Duane Morris LLP - USA -
January 22 2013
Can you legally resell your second-hand digital files? That's an unusual question not yet directly answered by the courts. U.S. copyright law's first…
iTunes soon to be challenged by ReDigi’s second-hand digital marketplace
- White & Black Legal LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- January 23 2013
It was recently announced that ReDigi, an online Marketplace facilitating the sale and purchase of second-hand digital music (purchased from
Intangibles and exhaustion: ReDigi and UsedSoft revisited
- AJ Park
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- May 14 2013
As noted by Ben Challis in the 1709 Blog and by Eleonora Rosati on the IPKat, many commentators believe it wrong that a court could decide that first
Exhaustion of rights - a green light for ReDigi?
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- European Union
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- February 19 2013
In the last few years, there has been a quantum shift in how software consumers obtain their purchases. Tangible products are being increasingly
Google RIP: what inactive account manager means for your will
- Pitmans LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- April 16 2013
Google Inactive Account Manager is a new feature which allows account holders to donate their digital assets to a nominated beneficiary, with
EU allows resale of downloaded software
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
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- European Union
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- October 30 2012
In a judgment that has significant implications for the software and digital media industries in Europe, the European Court has ruled that, in principle, the owner of copyright in software cannot stop someone who has purchased and downloaded that software online from reselling it.
Customers can resell copies of downloaded software; developers can try to stop them
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- European Union
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- July 4 2012
Yesterday, 3 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in UsedSoft v. Oracle that online purchasers of software may resell copies of their downloads provided that they render the original download usable.
Non-commercial use of trademark "DigiD" by Dutch government does not infringe dutch trade name rights in "Digi-D"
- Hogan Lovells
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- Netherlands
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- January 20 2011
The District Court of The Hague rendered a decision in the summary proceeding DigiD v. Digi-D.
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.
Is the second-hand sale of software licenses allowed in Europe?
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- July 31 2012
The Court of Justice of the European Union has now ruled that software developers may no longer block the resale of online licensed software.
First alleged pirate walks the plank lands in shallow water
- Baldwins
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- New Zealand
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- January 31 2013
The first of at least 11 infringing file sharing cases before the Copyright Tribunal has now been decided. The Tribunal's decision is largely a
The software industry wakes up to a brave new world
- Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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- European Union
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- July 11 2012
In a surprising decision early in July, in the case of UsedSoft GmbH v. Oracle International, the highest court in Europe, at the stroke of the pen, has re-written the basic rules of the game relating to the distribution of software in the European Union.
Dutch government revokes security certificates from its sole provider
- Stibbe
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- Netherlands
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- November 22 2011
In August 2011, DigiNotar, a company issuing SSL (secure socket layer) certificates for numerous websites operated by the Government, admitted that hackers had illegally obtained such certificates.
Europe in breach of international copyright treaty
- AJ Park
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- European Union
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- November 14 2012
A recent decision of the European Court of Justice on the licensing model for software transactions, has inadvertently breached the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996.
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.