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Court of Justice and second hand software

Written by: Vondst Newsdesk



3 July 2012

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In a landmark case (usedSoft-case) the Court of Justice of the EU today decided that buyers of second hand software do need need a license from the software vendor to use the software. The Court also found that the exhaustion rule not only applies to software sold on a physical carrier, but also to downloaded software.