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Old 04-27-2011, 02:04 PM   #395
Greg Anos
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
Yup, what they sold you was a license. You can sell licenses.
You might be interested to know that every software program that you use is purchased under a license. What's an ebook? Its not a physical object; its software. I might add that there is nothing intrinsically inferior about a license. Its just a different bundle of property rights. But it is different from a sale.
You might check some case law about first sale doctrine and licensing.

Why is a piece of software not an entity, the same as it's physical counterpart?

Now if you want to host it on the cloud, not allowing downloads other than buffer pages you'd have a license...

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