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Legally speaking
When is a "license" really a sale?

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Volume 52 , Issue 3 (March 2009) table of contents
Being Human in the Digital Age

COLUMN: Viewpoints table of contents

Pages 27-29

Year of Publication: 2009

ISSN:0001-0782

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Pamela Samuelson

University of California, Berkeley

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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APPENDICES and SUPPLEMENTS

UMG Recordings Inc. v. Augusto (204 KB),	UMG Recordings Inc., Plaintiff, v. Troy Augusto, et al., Defendants, U.S. District Court, C.D. California, June 10, 2008

Vernor v. Autodesk (238 KB),	Timothy S. Vernor, Plaintiff, v. Autodesk Inc., Defendant. U.S. District Court, W.D. Washington, at Seattle. May 20, 2008.

ABSTRACT

Can you resell software even if the package says you can't? What are the implications for copyright law of the Quanta decision discussed in the November 2008 column?

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING
K.5.1 Hardware/Software Protection