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Sique writes "An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his 'used' licenses allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the internet. The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a license is exhausted on its first sale. This was decided [Tuesday] (PDF) by the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case of Used Soft GmbH v. Oracle International Corp.."http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Used+Software+Can+Be+Sold%2C+Says+EU+C ourt+of+Justice%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FP5rxNW)ht tp://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory %2F12%2F07%2F03%2F1245200%2Fused-software-can-be-sold-says-eu-court-of-justice%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfac ebook)http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/1245200/used-software-can-be-sold-says-eu-court-of-justice?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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