Federal Court Says First-Sale Doctrine Covers Software, Too

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 22, 2008 @07:19AM from the it-better dept.

New10k writes "The US District Court in Seattle has rejected Autodesk's myriad arguments regarding its software licenses and found in favor of eBay seller Timothy S. Vernor. The ruling started by ruling that Vernor was within his rights to resell copies of AutoCAD Release 14 he got in an auction. Once the court settled the legitimacy of reselling, it used that ruling as a lens to dismiss all of Autodesk's various claims. More than once the court described Autodesk's arguments as 'specious' and 'conflicted.'" Autodesk managed to have Vernor's eBay account pulled, after he listed for sale copies of AutoCad 14. He sued Autodesk in response.

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Re:Autodesk = a true evil empire by The+End+Of+Days · 2008-05-22 07:57 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Yeah, seriously. I can't believe they're allowed to get away with not selling software on my terms. Assholes. What happened to power to the people? Seems like all the power is in the hand of people who aren't people, instead of people, like me and you. Little guys is what I think we're calling ourselves in this thread, right?