Advocate General considers exhaustion of rights in downloaded software and resale of licences | Practical Law
Advocate General Bot has considered the extent to which the distribution right in downloaded software might be exhausted and opined that purchasers of software licences cannot rely on the exhaustion principle to create new software copies. (Bierbach, administrator of UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp, Case C-128/11, 24 April 2012.) (Free access.)