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Originally Posted by HarryT
You are buying. You're buying a licence.
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Apply that to cars. You're not buying a car, you're buying a license to use a car. And here's all the restrictions...
Apply it to paperback books. You're not buying a book, you're buying a license to read this book. And here's all the restrictions...
You could claim anything is a license. But if you pay for it upfront (not regularly), it doesn't expire...it's not really a license.
Kind of the like the old statement that about ducks...if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
Which is what Elfwreck was saying...
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The legal cases that established the first-sale doctrine also involved contracts stating something like "this is a license, not a sale." The courts ruled that if the exchange of product-for-money acted like a sale, it was a sale, regardless of the terminology used..
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