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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Okay, I can believe random person on forum or I can believe the multiple lawyers who discussed this topic in-detail on their blogs? Sorry, you're not really convincing me of anything except your will to argue.
If you look at the actual rulings involved in the argument, under them you do not "own" any computer file on which IP is present as long as there is any form of secondary licence such as a liscence agreement, ToS or EULA. You are merely licensing it with conditions - this also follows from Blizzard vs BNetD...
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For what it's worth, Shaggy's interpretation matches that of the various eminent legal experts who discussed this case in the graduate seminar on IP the law and computers a while back. As always, legal experts routinely disagree on the correct interpretation of the written law and of the meaning of various court rulings. That's why we end up with subsequent cases too.
Xenophon